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GENERAL FRAMES FOR THE ONTOLOGY OF EDUCATION IN THE ERA OF “NEW NOMADISM” // Pedagogical Review. 2020. Issue 1 (29). P. 200-211

The purpose of the article is a description of the general framework for the ontology of education in the era of digital nomadism. This framework is based on the specific features of digital nomadism as a socio-cultural phenomenon and the ontology of the network society. The article describes the milestones in the history of the “new nomadism” from the 1960s to the present, with a focus on the research of M. McLuhan, G. Deleuze, F. Guattari, J. Attali, T. Makimoto, D. Manners, W. J. Mitchell, J.W. Moravec et al, S. Lusmägi. The paper presents the factors that preconditioned occurrence, development, and globalization of a new type of nomadism, essential characteristics of new nomads, and their classification: digital (or electronic), knowledge nomads (knowmads), and students as nomads. The paper contains examples of the existing practice of nomadic education and proposes its prospects. The general principles, methods, and formats of “nomadic” education have been determined. They reflect the ontology of the network digital society and the world-view attitudes and lifestyle of new nomads. The presented model does not pretend to be the full representation of the ontology of “nomadic” education but sets a certain reflection vector necessary for understanding this phenomenon.

Keywords: digital network society, new nomadism, digital nomads, knowledge nomads (knowmads), student nomads, ontology of nomadic education

Socio-philosophical foundations of the special course “Anti-utopias as artistic projections of the digital society risks” for master’s students of classical universities // Pedagogical Review. 2025. Issue 3 (61). P. 7-18

The aim of the article is to explicate the socio-philosophical foundations of the special course “Anti-utopias as artistic projections of the digital society risks” for master’s students of classical universities. These socio-philosophical foundations include the concept of risk society and world risk society by U. Beck; the critical theory of digitalisation and communication by D. Berry and K. Fuchs; the concept of future prediction by J. Urry; the theory of the social construction of reality by P. Berger and T. Lukmann; the concept of the self-fulfilling prophecy by R. Merton; the concept of the imaginary presented in the works of J.-P. Sartre and N.N. Suvorov, as well as critical discourse analysis (CDA) by N. Fairclough. The article provides the substantiation of the timeliness of the development and implementation of the special course in the programs of Master’s degree and specialized higher education of classical universities in the context of the Russian higher education system transformation and the risky nature of the modern digital society. The article presents the tasks and thematic plan of the special course. It describes the experience of its approbation in the National Research Tomsk State University within the framework of the Master’s program “Digital Brand Management” in the direction of training 42.04.01 “Advertising and Public Relations”. The results of the special course “Anti-utopias as artistic projections of the digital society risks” approbation demonstrated the interest of master’s students in exploring the potential of anti-utopian literature to identify and structure the risks of the digital society in order to develop further strategies for their prevention and prejudice.

Keywords: higher education, classical university, master’s student, risks of digital society, social forecasting, artistic anti-utopia, socio-philosophical foundations