Author:
Dmitriy A. Pletnev
Chelyabinsk State University (Chelyabinsk, Russia)
Ekaterina V. Nikolaeva
Chelyabinsk State University (Chelyabinsk, Russia)
Abstract:
The current stage of socio-economic relations development influences many vectors of future transformations, one of which is noonomy, a post-economic way of production aimed at satisfying specific human needs based on the criteria of reasonableness determined by the development of knowledge and culture. This kind of development of human civilization is desirable, but not obligatory. In order for this probable vector to come to fruition, it is necessary to understand what conditions and actions can bring closer the implementation of this version of future transformation. One of the key areas that defines a person, their values and readiness to act is education. The paper considers the issue of qualitative and irreversible changes (aromorphosis) in education during the transition to noonomy. The purpose of this study is to describe the structure of human needs in the context of noonomy as a holistic frame of the desired future, and to substantiate the necessary qualitative changes in education as a system in which these needs are formed. The transformation of needs during the transition to noonomy is under analysis. The author formulates the particulars and requirements for the formation of a structure of needs adequate to noonomy are determined. The principle of dominant in the context of the formation of needs is revealed, on the basis of which the authors developed the conditions necessary for the transition from needs based on the principle of economic rationality to nooneeds. Based on A. Maslow’s theory of self-actualization, the goals and results of nooeducation are determined (among which are the desire for justice, beauty and truth), its fundamental differences from traditional education are shown. Proposals for the transformation of state policy in the field of education are formulated, making possible the aromorphosis
of nooeducation adequate to noonomy.
Keywords: noonomy, education, self-actualization needs, life goal dominant, existential needs.
For citation: Pletnev D.A., Nikolaeva E.V. (2025). Aromorphosis of Education during the Transition to Noonomy: Why and How? Noonomy and Noosociety. Almanac of Scientific Works of the S.Y. Witte INID, Vol. 4, No. 2, pp. 76–89. DOI: 10.37930/2782-6465-2025-4-2-76-89