Елена Омельченко’s scientific contributions

Представление о важности информального образования (самообразования) в формировании определенных типов социальности является основой одной из приоритетных современных образовательных стратегий — обучения в течение всей жизни. В основу анализа информальных образовательных структур внутри радикальных политизированных молодежных солидарностей легли эмпирические данные, полученные в ходе исследования солидарного объединения анархистов в г. Санкт-Петербурге, которое проводилось Центром молодежных исследований НИУ ВШЭ в рамках международного проекта MYPLACE — Memory, Youth, Political Legacy and Civic Engagement. Авторы показывают, как информальная система образования связана с повседневными практиками активистов, как она структурно организована и как согласуется с мировоззренческими и политическими установками группы. ________________ The anarchist community is used to analyze informal education patterns inside radically politicized youth communities. The paper studies how informal education system is related with everyday activists' practices and identifies structural organization of this system and its consistency with political and philosophical attitudes in the community. It has been discovered that, despite severe criticism of formal education system, education remains highly appreciated by anarchists. Thus, they mostly trust informal education channels, as independent sources of information. Social space of informal education is represented by communication, i.e. adherents translate key anarchist values through everyday interpersonal communication and demonstrate their belonging to the community through reference to important texts, names, and events. An informal education system in a subcultural environment is formed the same way as formal systems are formed: knowledge is selected, legitimized, optimized, and reproduced in compliance with ideological principles. Ideology is transparent in informal education, unlike in formal one. Subject areas of anarchist informal education are integrated in activist and political projects and related to anarchist philosophy and everyday life. As individuals are involved into informal education practices based on alternative interpretation of existing economic, governmental, and social structures, it results in changing their vision of the world and reorganizing their essential strategies and everyday practices. The analysis has demonstrated how informal knowledge systems can replace formal ones and produce new forms of sociality, changing not only parlance but also lifestyle, activities, and consumer practices of adherents.