Modern Myth: demystification instructions for pedagogues
Modern Myth: demystification instructions for pedagogues

Summary/Abstract: Ukrainian informational space has been deeply damaged by centuries oldcolonial policy – myths have been deliberately distorting and depreciating Ukrainianhistory and culture. Under conditions of informational aggression together withgovernmental informational policy, keeping to ethics provided by mass mediapedagogue has an important mission of society demythologization.Purpose. This article aims to consider the modern myth as an object of scientificresearch and pedagogical problem, to name the causes and stages of societymythologization, to classify the myths and to name their functions. This article alsoaims to propose a technique of psychological and pedagogical influence, aimed atdemystifying the worldview – a metamodel of neurolinguistic programming.Methods. Analysis and generalization of scientific sources and documents havebeen performed. Deduction technique has been applied as a process of drawinglogical conclusion based on the complex of analyzed facts and summarizing.Conclusions. The main reasons why myths arise are absence of knowledge andmisunderstanding of facts, hiding truth, herd mentality, striving for unity and selfdeception. Therefore, we propose to implement the work on demythologizationaccording to the following stages: 1) myth identification, 2) determination of mythcharacteristics, 3) scientifically substantiated refutation of myth, 4) psychologicaland pedagogical activities aimed at transforming the mythical worldview. Specialattention should be paid to the function which every myth performs: rational,adaptive, security function, mobilizing function, function of history legitimization ormeans of mass consciousness manipulation. Correct identification of every particularmyth and its characteristics will provide finding the most effective pedagogicalmethods and technologies of demythologization.

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