PSYCHOLOGICAL METHODOLOGY OF PERFORMANCE IN THE EDUCATIONAL PROCESS OF HIGHER EDUCATION

Abstract

The article substantiates the nature and perspective of performance theory in psychology within the educational process of a higher school, which assumes the presence of three aspects: performance as an existential situation of trust, performance as an active and dynamic interaction between participants, and performance as a common field for creating values and meanings. The author states that the application of performance theory in psychology changes not only the course of education in higher education, but also provides an opportunity to turn the educational process into an experience necessary for further professional and individual socialization. Also, looking at learning as a performance opens up psychological possibilities for a special kind of therapy, when participants together invent new roles and scenarios, going beyond the boundaries of trauma and disorders.
The article shows that performance as an existential situation of trust is a necessary step in creating a comfortable environment for further interaction between students (group) and teacher (moderator). The concept of mimetic inversion is proposed as a bodily-emotional imitation of role models for the purpose of reproducing certain scenarios. The next step is an active and dynamic interaction between the participants of performance, which involves a special kind of thinking and physical activity. Demonstration and ritualization of performative actions is fundamental in the performative activity between the participants of the educational process. The third component involves the performative assimilation of both professional and life values and meanings, bringing the educational process as close as possible to life.
The main conclusions of the article are that the psychological methodology of performance not only changes the type of activity, but also the nature of thinking and understanding. The educational process as a performance completely changes the approach to learning and the role of participants, where the main thing is how knowledge is invented and transmitted. The performative role of the teacher is to dialectically (experimentally and normatively) involve students in a special type of performative activity that imitates life experience through imitation and repetition.
A promising direction of research is the implementation of the psychological methodology of performance in the processes of understanding, in particular at the cognitive, metacognitive level and the «moderator-group-process» and «moderator-personality-process» systems.