Scientifically substantiated goal-setting, design and subsequent improvement of existing educational structures, effective education policy are the fundamental principles of cognitive-prognostic function.
The term “function”, which came from the Latin language, has several meanings: “fulfillment”, “fulfillment”. Science is a powerful social force engaged in solving the global problems of human civilization. In modern life, the role of science is steadily increasing, generating and modifying the status of a culture of social consciousness. Scientific activity, art and ordinary consciousness are inextricably linked forms of cognitive activity. In scientific theory, there are basic functions, each of which is closely related to another: cognitive, practical and prognostic. It is noteworthy that the degree and nature of their manifestation depends on the goals, attitudes and conditions in which they are studied.
Science functions
The task of the cognitive function is to reveal the content of laws, categories, and essential causal relationships of processes. She studies the nature of the manifestation of these processes, the presence of internal contradictions, as well as ways to overcome them to ensure the progressive development of society.
The cognitive function serves as the foundation for any scientific discipline. Direct knowledge consists in examining facts, observing and studying the behavioral characteristics of subjects, phenomena typical of them, on the basis of which laws and categories are studied.
The practical function justifies the application of the laws necessary to solve problems and implement policies that meet collective interests. For example, in economics, a practical function is based on the study of rational forms of economic management, as well as on the application of measures that contribute to the resolution of economic problems with the achievement of an effective result of the development of production entities and the rapid growth of the welfare of the population.
Philosophy
Processes and phenomena, matter and consciousness, man and society - a prognostic function in the context of philosophical discipline is based on the creation of forecasts regarding the forms and directions of development of objects in the future. The theoretical basis for it is the existing system of knowledge about the surrounding reality.
The data held by science are fundamental in determining the development of human society. The prognostic function of philosophy is to study the socio-cultural phenomenon of science, cognition of the interactions of nature and society. For example, the study of the phenomenon of humanization in the conditions of the technical revolution: the activities of a modern engineer depersonalizes humanity, bringing with it not only benefits and progress, but also the destruction of nature, the mechanization of society, and the perversion of the spirit. The prognostic function of philosophical doctrine is based on rational-theoretical comprehension of the world, the study of its inherent laws and patterns, attempts to explain and predict their development.
Pedagogy
In pedagogy, the prognostic function is as follows: a reasonable prediction of the development of educational realities. Program training, development of computers and communication tools have become the basis for the development of such a branch of science as pedagogical futurology. The prognostic function of pedagogy puts forward many theories about the progressive movement of education. For example, children of the future generation will study either at home or in specialized centers.
The basis for educational activities will be telecommunications. The results of pedagogical research are contained in theories, pedagogical systems and technologies. Forecasts of educational figures are presented in the form of reports, articles, books, manuals and training programs.
Economy
In economic theory, the task of prognostic function is reduced to the prediction of economic processes. Those that contribute to negative and positive changes in economic indicators. Economic crises, inflation, unemployment, low income - the prevention of market and economic disasters has entrusted the prognostic function of economic knowledge.
State and law
The theory of state and law is impossible without a prognostic function. Making forecasts and predictions, hypothesizing, studying the development of state-legal phenomena are of no small importance in the evolution of powers. The prognostic function of law and state has its own structure. This is the process of building and regulating state public relations in the context of law, as well as studying the phenomena characteristic of it, trying to stabilize the social, political and national situation, eliminating contradictions in the forms of governance.
Legal structure
This point is no less important for understanding the issue under consideration. The prognostic function as a method of modeling socially necessary rules of behavior that govern social relations is an ideological source of law. But it is carried out through legal awareness.
The set of mutual relations and actions of the components necessary for the holistic development and functioning of justice is called the structure of justice. It represents two elements: scientific (ideology) and everyday (psychology) legal awareness.
By a system of views presented in the form of a theory, but reflected in the legal phenomena of society, is meant a legal ideology or a scientific legal consciousness. This element plays an important role in the activities of government bodies involved in the use of law-making and law enforcement ideas.
Legal psychology studies the moods prevailing in social groups or among individual individuals regarding the law and law that function in society. In other words, such an element of the structure of legal consciousness as legal psychology analyzes the attitude of the population to the current legislation, as well as to the approval and implementation of new laws, the legal consolidation of certain social norms.