Danielian, N. V. Role of Constructivism under Conditions of Transfer from Information Society to the Knowledge Society

Abstract: The given article is devoted to the increasing role of constructivism in the process of transfer from the information society to the knowledge society. The author analyzes the term ‘knowledge society’ based on publications by different philosophers and defines the main difference between the information society and the knowledge society to be the usage of non-scientific knowledge. In a new society the border between science, society and social culture are erased. Based on the analysis of the main views of certain famous philosophers on the process of education the author makes the suggestion that the purpose of education is now becoming the formation of human as he is. This means we have to refuse from using formal information and start to use ‘living knowledge’. The author makes a conclusion that being one of the forms of knowledge organization, construction also means the ability to build a new order which would answer a person’s goal. Thus, in knowledge society the term ‘knowledge’ is understood as the encompassing by the reality which is continuously turning into the construct of scientific and cognitive activity.

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