Problems of Humanitarian Knowledge in the Era of Total Digitalization

Abstract

The paper describes the problems that are posed to humanitarian education in the era of global digitalization. The study’s aim is to confirm the substantiation of the significance of humanitarian knowledge in the formation of conceptual thinking as a basic skill of human intellectual activity in the modern world. The study uses a comparative analytical method which examines the features of the conceptual thinking formation in a modern school and university, as well as substantiates the importance of humanitarian knowledge as the basis for the of conceptual thinking formation as an axiological basis for the personal and civic education of students; the formation of their social intelligence, patriotism, civil and personal responsibility. The author analyzed features of the use of visual aids as a deforming method in the conceptual thinking formation of modern students and schoolchildren in the era of total digitalization, as well as the experience of distance learning in the humanities in a pandemic situation. It is concluded that humanitarian knowledge is the most important resource in the formation of conceptual thinking as a basic component of intellectual development, socialization and education of civil and personal self-awareness of students in higher education.