Journal of Siberian Federal University. Humanities & Social Sciences / Ethical Considerations of Digitalization in Education: The Coming Together of Social, Cultural, and Philosophical Dimensions

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Issue
Journal of Siberian Federal University. Humanities & Social Sciences. 2023 16 (1)
Authors
Mineev, Valery V.; Viktoruk, Elena N.; Artemyeva, Svetlana I.
Contact information
Mineev, Valery V.: Krasnoyarsk State Pedagogical University named after V. P. Astafiev Krasnoyarsk, Russian Federation; Viktoruk, Elena N.: Krasnoyarsk State Pedagogical University named after V. P. Astafiev Krasnoyarsk, Russian Federation; ; Artemyeva, Svetlana I.: K. G. Razumovsky Moscow State University of Technologies and Management (the First Cossack University) Moscow, Russian Federation
Keywords
digital ethics; moral choice; dehumanization; distance learning; digitalization
Abstract

The article is aimed at determining the place of ethical issues within the frame of digitalization in education. To achieve this objective, a generalization of secondary sociological data and logical analysis together with elements of phenomenological reflection were used as the main methods. The authors applied the content analysis tools to various kinds of publications as well as to the survey data obtained by scholars of the Department of Philosophy, Sociology and Religious Studies at the V. P. Astafyev KSPU. A range of objections to digitalization were divided into groups and the most important issues of deep concern to the participants of the educational process were identified. The ethical challenges have been shown not to indicate the incompatibility of digital technologies with human qualities, though the lack of experience due to the force-majeure situation in which innovations are taking place is obvious. Social and moral capacity of the digitalization in education, furthermore, was demonstrated. Also, the distance learning format was judged to be valuable as some space for monitoring the educational process. The digitalization of education is a promising strategy that contributes to the development towards the prevalence of intangible values, although gives rise to a wide range of moral collisions

Pages
72–79
EDN
QVYCTC
Paper at repository of SibFU
https://elib.sfu-kras.ru/handle/2311/149739

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