On the Question of the Social-Historical Significance of Psychological and Pedagogical Counseling in Overcoming Learning Difficulties

Based on anarchist methodology, the essay analyzes the historical and social meanings of the social practice of psychological and pedagogical counseling in overcoming educational difficulties. The text provides a brief explanation of the concept of delusional work in the works of anthropologist D. Graeber, a comparative analysis of the functional significance of psychological and pedagogical counseling as a social practice and crazy work as a specific type of work activity. The theoretical and methodological comparison is accompanied by a reflexive analysis of the author’s own experience in the field of psychological and pedagogical counseling. The author offers a description of the social meaning of counseling in overcoming educational difficulties as a provision for a gradual revolution in pedagogical systems through a revolution in worldview, substantiates the need and prospects for such a view. The essay suggests potential problem epicenters for the development and spread of psychological and pedagogical counseling in educational activities, visible from an anarchist methodological perspective.

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