THE DEVELOPMENT OF NOTIONS OF NORM IN PHILOSOPHY AND CORRECTIONAL PEDAGOGY
The article deals with different opinions of researchers on the essential signs of norm of individual development. According to the article, it’s difficult to define the concept of norm. The content of the concept “normativity” is also defined in the article. Moreover, the author marks out preconditions for the construction of referential theory of normativity. The author characterizes the criteria of norm of individual development and states that these criteria are related to certain referential areas outside of which they lose diagnostic value and heuristic possibilities. The importance of study and development of representations of norm is a key to the correctional pedagogy. Normalization is considered as one of the priorities of special education.