Building a visual model of a formalized language for learning education

In this article, the authors put forward the scientific problem of the possibility of developing a visual model of a unified formalized language of professional communication of modern education researchers as a complex self-developing object of multidisciplinary scientific views. The multilateral analysis of the existing theoretical context of modern education has shown that researchers conceptualize it within the framework of their scientific disciplines, on the basis of established disciplinary theoretical constructs. The latter circumstance has led to the fact that a variety of heterogeneous theoretical interpretations of modern education has been formed in the scientific space. This fact testifies in favor of the fact that the scientific space is significantly enriched with new disciplinary knowledge about modern education. However, the problem of the possibility of building a unified language system for the study of modern education that incorporates universal characteristics inherent in various scientific disciplines still remains unsolved. The authors argue that a single formalized language, namely its visual model, of comprehension of modern education can raise the professional communication of its researchers to a higher quality level. The latter is achieved through the formalization and objectivization of theoretical and methodological foundations of modern education comprehension. The processes of formalization and objectivization provide unified understanding and knowledge exchange, increasing the unambiguity of interpretation of concepts between different disciplines and using unified methods and formats of data description. In order to construct a model of formalized language for studying education and its semantics, the authors carried out a detailed analysis of a significant array of disciplinary sign systems available in the scientific space, with the subsequent identification of universal constructs inherent in all scientific disciplines. Then the alphabet and syntax of the formalized language were built, the relations between its elements were determined, and the semantic network was constructed. Hermeneutic and semantic methods serve as the theoretical and methodological justification of the present work. The article formulates the heuristic potential of the proposed model of a unified formalized language, as well as a number of key conditions for its effective application by education researchers.

education, visualization, formalized language, semantic network, visual model