The concept of ‘communicativity’: theoretical and methodological basis for the formation of a communicative approach in education

Abstract

The article explores the discourse of the phenomenon and concept of ‘communication’ and defines the system-forming (methodological) concept of the communicative-educational sphere of personality development and communicative existence of the individual in general. It is the phenomenon and concept of ‘communicability’.

It is proved that the concept of ‘communicativity’ is the methodological basis for the definition of pedagogical communicativity. Pedagogical communicativity is the actualization in the educational (pedagogical) process of communicative consciousness, communicative co-existence and communicative interaction as a pedagogical system ‘I – Other’, on the basis of which the ‘student’ realizes himself, discovers and actualizes his ontological, axiological and teleological self (subjectivity). Others are actualized in “teacher”, ‘book’, ‘educational content’, ‘nature’, ‘society’, ‘culture’, ‘other students’, ‘parents’, ‘computer’, ‘space’, ‘deity’, etc.

The “communicativity“ is also a system-forming concept of the communicative approach in education. The communicative approach in education is a universal idea that defines, reveals, and actualizes communicativity as an ontological, axiological, and teleological basis for the development of the individual and the methodological basis of education. The methodological and epistemological essence of the communicative approach in education is the consideration of educational phenomena through the prism of the concept of pedagogical communicativity, which combines and ‘removes’ other communicative phenomena and concepts of pedagogy: communication, dialogue, interaction, communication, cooperation, partnership, relationships, tact, tolerance, etc. Based on the research conducted on the phenomenon and concept of “communicativity“ as a system-forming concept of the communicative approach in education, the key characteristics and principles of the communicative approach as a methodological basis of education have been identified.