INFORMATIZATION AND DIGITALIZATION: COMPLEXITY APPROACH TO ASSESSING THE TRANSFORMATION OF EDUCATION

Abstract

The authors try to comprehend the fea­tures of promising areas of the processes of informa­tization and digital transformation of education as a complex phenomenon. Using the theoretical con­cepts of complexity created in Russian and foreign philosophical thought, the authors prove the need to develop integrative approaches to assessing the transformations that take place in the process of in­formational changes in the sphere of education. The comparative analysis of existing models of the «сom­plex vision» of education in the process of its digital transformation and a critical review of its content revealed the advantages and disadvantages of using the principles of epistemology of complexity in the study of education. Education is a sphere of cogni­tive complication, where the development of creative and adaptive competencies necessary for success­ful implementation of activities in the conditions of the high-rate variability of the social environment takes place. Systematic update of the results and content of education, methods and organizational forms of academic work requires understanding of the complexity of this complicated process, since the changes in each of the components are interlinked, mutually complement and support each other. Orien­tation to the procedural rather than the substantial nature of the phenomena of the educational sphere should be ascribed to the advantages of the com­plexity approach to studying transformations of the educational sphere. Understanding the complexity of education involves addressing the organizational specifics of educational processes, the development of educational environment and pedagogical tech­nologies. The study of the transformation of educa­tion as a complex phenomenon involves the organi­zation of interdisciplinary interaction aimed at the synthesis and interaction of diverse forms of reflec­tion and study of education, which involves the use of transdisciplinarity principles.