Additional Reality: National Traditions In The Spiritual Experience Of The Information Society

Abstract

In this work, the authors focus on the problem of the development of information and computer technologies in relation to the peculiarities of the development of the spiritual experience of society associated with folk culture and folk art. The article discusses the concept of “information society”, substantiates the processes of attention to folk culture and applied creativity on the example of the realities of the Russian school system. The society of post-industrial reality, as a rule, gets acquainted with information to a greater extent in a ready-made format and in an unlimited amount. This is both an advantage of informational reality and its disadvantage. With the increasing standardization of information resources, the problem of a lack of creative thinking arises. The creative beginning in the modern world of the predominance of finished information products is becoming a deficit in the spiritual experience of mankind. The basis for the development of creative potential is folk culture, folk traditions. In theoretical terms, acquaintance with them and their development reflects the worldview of society, and in practical terms, they form technologies (tools and techniques) for processing various materials. Introduction to folk art reveals personal and social qualities, forms the regional identity, necessary in the period of globalization. The authors revealed an imbalance in attention to issues of folk culture in comparison with the number of sections devoted to the personal information culture in the analysis of educational standards of the secondary school curriculum for the subject “technology”.