Understanding as an uncertainty overcome

Abstract

The article discusses understanding as a human tendency to remove uncertainty through the phenomenon of «entropy». The learning process initially puts the student in a situation of constant movement from a disordered environment to an ordered one, which occurs due to the constant interruption of the student’s inner world balance. Studies of understanding through entropy allow us to consider the subject of understanding as an irreversible dynamic system, then the individuality of pedagogical influence can be explained by the degree of stability of this system. Taking into account the variety of individual differences that determine the process of understanding, the idea of building a probabilistic model of understanding is proposed.