Humanistic trend in education in a global context

Department of “Pedagogy, Philosophy and History”, Samara State Agrarian University, 2 Uchebnaya str., 446442, settlement Ust-Kinelsky, Russia

^∗ Corresponding author: stommm3@mail.ru

Abstract

The purpose of the research is to study the peculiarities of the realization of the humanistic trend in education in the conditions of electronic informational and educational environment. A comparative approach is used in the research. This approach allowed the author to establish that one of the trends of the development of educational systems of Russia, China and the United States is a humanistic trend in education, which has its own national characteristics and peculiarities associated with the traditions, customs and particularity the development of national educational systems in these countries. The author reveals the general vector of development of the humanistic trend in education in Russia, China and the USA in the conditions of the electronic informational and educational environment, manifested in the following features. They are 1) equality in education for students; 2) the creation of a common scientific and educational space; 3) a teacher or a professor departs from the directive role, he plays the role of a facilitator and a consultant; 4) the students play the active roles, they interact freely with each other in an online environment (the principle of interactivity). Besides, 5) the students are responsible for the results of the independent learning activities, motivated for the process of the independent knowledge acquisition; 6) the students learn to master the “Lifelong Learning” principles. In addition, 7) the students master the competencies of the digital economy and education, learn to build human relationships, to show empathy, learn to form value attitudes towards society and life.