M. MONTESSORI’S IDEA ABOUT “COSMIC EDUCATION” AND THE ISSUE OF THE PERSONALITY WORLD VIEW DEVELOPMENT

Underlying the importance of the concept of the personality world view development, which responds the necessity of globalization of the person consciousness, the author of the article addresses the analysis of creative heritage of M. Montessori as the representative of foreign pedagogy of cosmism. The main statements of «cosmic theory» and the ideas about «cosmic education» of this well-known Italian teacher are analyzed in the article. The author elicits their theoretical-methodological potential in the context of the issue of the personal world view resolution. In the article the author underlines the possibility and the importance of realization of M. Montessori’s idea about “cosmic education” in the modern educational process aimed at the pupils’ integral world outlook development and the mindset of solving the global problems of the present.

globalization of the consciousness, cosmic consciousness, pedagogy of cosmism, idea of cosmic education, personality world view, educational process, the ecological aspect of the world view, the moral-aesthetic aspect of the world view, integral world outlook, tolerance