Social-philosophical aspects of the problems of engineering education in the context of information culture
I. A. Pfanenshtil, M. P. Yatsenko, I. G. Borisenko
Siberian Federal University, Svobodnyy prospekt, 82, Krasnoyarsk, 660130, Russia
Keywords: information society, information culture, problems of engineering education
Abstract
The paper analyzes the major challenges faced by the teachers and students of technical colleges, a significant portion of them being conditioned by rejection of the best traditions of Soviet education. The authors offer concrete solutions to the problems of engineering education, based on the latest information technologies. The analysis of the social-philosophical aspects of the problems of modern engineering education includes taking into consideration the ambiguity of influence of modern information technologies on the educational system as a social institution which acts in a traditional domestic manner: as a unity of training and upbringing. Informatization of the society not only fundamentally changes the education system, but also creates new problems in it which are particularly sharply manifested in engineering education. For free orientation in the information space the person should have the information culture as a component of general culture; however, in the engineering education today there are a number of problems in this respect. Increasing the prestige of engineering professions is a priority in the modernization of the Russian science, because the technological modernization of the country depends largely on engineers and designers. To achieve this goal it is necessary to form a new generation of engineers which are able to create, maintain and develop innovative technological solutions. In addition, one of the main goals of engineering education is not only preparing the professionally educated specialist, able to make independent decisions, but also the formation of the skill of successful entry into the labor market, the development of active life position, the mastering of the ability of further self-development of personality. It is important to emphasize here that in today's world, education is seen not only as information and communication tools and the mechanism of translation and dissemination of knowledge, but also as a social institution of spiritual and moral development of the individual as the basis of socialization, active inclusion into various spheres of social life.
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