Individual educational pathway: analysis of the phenomenon in Ukrainian and foreign studies

The results of interdisciplinary analysis of the content and definitions of the concept of «individual educational pathway» as well as semantically similar concepts, that are actively used in Ukrainian and foreign studies are presented. It is shown that the most commonly used in the Ukrainian and Russian literature are such concepts like «individual educational pathway», «individual educational route», «individual educational program». In English and French publications in order to mark individual movement and progress in education the researchers use the following definitions «academictracks», «school / training careers», «educational / training trajectory», «educational / training path», «student transition», and they focus on such characteristics as: features of social origin; available educational experience of the subject of study; structuring, consistency, linearity, flexibility of the process of lifelong learning; local learning conditions as factors for the formation of identity and aptitude for learning; correlation of student (educational) transitions and transitional periods in the life of the personality; situational and chronological factors of the development of the personal educational pathway. The article defines that psychological and pedagogical content of the concept of «individual educational pathway» is revealed and specified through a number of diverse categories: educational and didactic (technologies of education, educational programs, content of education); resourceful (organizational, human and other resources of the provision and implementation of the personal educational pathway); individual and sociopsychological (biopsychic, personal, social characteristics of the subjects of generation and implementation of the personal educational pathway); cartographic-chronological (as a category that combines subjective and objective educational graphs in the three-dimensional chronological space). It has been specified that individual educational pathway are characterized by content and dynamic dissimilarity, which develops in the unity of its stable and transitional stages, and psychologically brings together the issues of the individual educational pathway and the life path of the personality.