STEM(STEAM) and Logotherapy: Intersection of Dimensional Onlogoby and Multidimensionality of Scientific Education (and their Acute Relevance in the Context of War)
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.32405/2413-4139-2020-2(29)-112-117Keywords:
logotherapy, existential analysis, Viktor Frankl, dimensional ontology, noetic, STEM education, education during the warAbstract
The events of the last year in Ukraine against the background of the military invasion of the Russian
Federation have put the Ukrainian people in front of many challenges, the answers to which must be sought
in the context of crisis situations in all spheres of life, including education. Ever since the pandemic, reality
has been constantly and rapidly changing, calling for rapid adaptation. For these changes to consider the
unpredictability of the future, in our opinion, we should rely on values that stand above such temporary
concepts as war, crisis, survival, lack of resources, fear of death, any loss, etc. For this, in each of the spheres
of human existence – from the microcosm of the family to global transformations at the level of the state and
the world as a whole – we must be guided by a map of values that considers a person not only in the dimension
of psychophysical, manifested being, but primarily at the level of the unmanifested, eternal one – in the
dimension of the noetic. The noetic level allows one to rise above the multidirectionality and unpredictability
of both human psychophysics and any events unfolding around. The inclusion of the noetic dimension in the
understanding of human ontology has been tested by events that, unfortunately, have not remained forever
in the past, but are unfolding here and now on the territory of Ukraine, namely the Second World War and
the Auschwitz camps. Logotherapy, a direction in psychology originated there, was started by the Austrian
psychiatrist and concentration camp prisoner Viktor Frankl, which is based on a detailed theory of existential
analysis and understanding that mental and physical a person possesses, while the spiritual, or noetic, he is.
This allows him to stand up to any, even contradictory, psycho-physical differences, discover self-distancing
and self-transcendence in himself, and reconcile even the most intolerable realities of his existence into a
whole.
We propose to consider the principles and laws of dimensional ontology, which is the foundation of
logotherapy, in the context of education. In particular, in our opinion, enriching educational programs with
tools and approaches that affirm the principles of noetic will contribute to the development and strengthening
of this dimension both in each individual and in the growing generation. Which, in turn, will make it possible
to raise a generation of individuals, free from survival strategies and aimed at affirming values that are not
subject to war, fear of death, or any destruction.
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