Zyazyun L. Theoretical Foundations of the Development and Self-development of Personality in the Educational System of France.

The thesis analyzes theoretical studies of French academics, educational specialists and psychologists little known to the scholarly pedagogical community of Ukraine. Since the 1920 ies-30ies up to the present time these studies, generalizing upon the world's scholarly achievements, have been offering many theoretical insights into the problem of personality self-development, specifically, in the sphere of self-education which are especially topical in the present-day conditions of a drastic increase in scientific knowledge, landslide development of informatization and computerization of educational systems on the level of states and continents. Self-development is viewed as an education technology that performs important social and personalistic functions: general education and professional instruction, general cultural development of individuals, optimal organization of their leisure time, adaptation, amortization, compensation, therapy, and mastering self-education tools. Varieties of self-educationare represented by corresponding models, differential features of which are, as a rule, experiential-professional, scientific, culture logical and similar differentiation and specialization of personality. The models are differentiated according to socio-demographic, spiritual, status, socio-economic, professional, qualificational and other features.