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Highlights
Humanities were always dependent on creation, interpretation and transmission of complex texts that demanded sophisticated reading and writing practices
What can we do to overcome this trend? While media approaches to education are widely discussed in Russia today [8], the issue of writing attracts relatively little attention
A vigorous and systematic use of handwriting can be found in some foreign and Russian (Institute of Liberal Education, Saint-Petersburg) educational institutions demonstrating a high degree of success [1,2]
Summary
Humanities were always dependent on creation, interpretation and transmission of complex texts that demanded sophisticated reading and writing practices. Today we constantly hear that these practices are in crisis. The teachers constantly notice and widely discuss the worsening writing and reading skills of their students. Any attempt to answer this question is often cast in a mysterious, or even mythological light. Everybody agrees that this crisis must be somehow related to the digital revolution – but how exactly?
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