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Siutkina Inna Sergeevna
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Udmurt State University
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This article explores the critics of pedagogical
discourse within activity theory. This critical approach
is provided explicitly in contemporary Russian
philosophy by I.A. Karavaeva. Within activity theory,
the idea of objectivity serves as a main criterion of an
educational process, whereas a teacher and a student
are losing their subjectivity. While a teacher is
reproducing the learning material by means of the
method, both of which are determined not by himself,
a student should be reproducing the provided material
as close to the original as possible. The learning
process resembles the reflection in the mirror. The
article raises the question of how to return the
subjectivity back to pedagogical discourse. The article
states that we should take into account the classical
German philosophy by F.W.J. Shelling (concept of
“un-grounding” of knowledge) as well as the
contemporary continental philosophy by J. Deleuze
(identity of thinking and learning). These theories help
to understand how a teacher and a student can think
and learn together. The dialogue between a teacher and
a student produces a unique and contingent learning
situation, when thinking is provoked by the necessity
of interpreting signs and making them meaningful. In
terms of didactics, this results in abandoning the
illusion of primordial knowledge as well as in
transition towards the post-methodological approach in
education