Toward a Question of “Communicative Turn” in Contemporary Education

Abstract

The article deals with the marking and conceptualization of those theoretical means which, according to the authors, may describe (and put into practice) the communicative turn in contemporary education. The concepts introduced here do not constitute a strict system, but are related at the level of “family similarity.” The communicative turn of education is described as the transformation in the constituents of a pedagogic process: in perception and in the rules of participants’ activity. This transformation is regarded as change in: 1) the ontology of education which is now considered in terms of communicative production; 2) the epistemology of education which placed the actor within practices of the communal production of meanings; 3) the technologies of education where the aspect of communicative action is emphasized.