DEHUMANIZATION IN THE DIGITAL EDUCATIONAL PROCESS: THE EXPERIENCE OF SOCIO-PHILOSOPHICAL REFLECTION

The work is based on the practical experience and philosophical reflection of the participants of the educational process regarding learning in the conditions of total digitalization, caused first by the Covid-19 pandemic, and then by the full-scale war in Ukraine.The research carries out a socio-philosophical analysis of the features of the educational process in higher education, which are related to the spread of information technologies, distance learning, and further dehumanization of all levels of social space.Philosophical analysis of the essence and basis of the process of dehumanization of higher education aims to further determine possible risks and ways to overcome them.A general theoretical study of the problem of digital dehumanization of education in the context of the development and introduction of information technologies is presented.The authors of the article consider the dehumanization of education not only as a reduction in the role of humanitarian knowledge in the process of professional training.The replacement of a purely human way of understanding reality by technical models, namely the "mechanization" and "computerization" of participants in the educational process, leads to the displacement of the human existential way of communication from the educational space, the loss of the humanistic content of education and its transformation into an instrumental category of production-market relations, the goal of which is the utilitarian assimilation of a narrow circle of professional knowledge and skills.Dehumanization is considered as a general process of eliminating the "human factor" from social and individual practice: loss and inability to create new spiritual and moral values, devaluation of human characteristics, "breaking" of a holistic worldview.The authors show that the modern educational process demonstrates the use of a large number of purely technical terms, such as "academic mobility", "educational technologies", "innovations", "human resources", "network of higher education institutions", "information processing", "mechanisms of feedback, evaluation, interaction", "educational trajectory", "intellectual product", "quality indicators", etc.In this thesaurus, a person is supposedly considered a functional unit, a carrier of "creative thinking", a producer of "new knowledge" and a participant in "innovation".But it is impossible to hide that instead of creating new knowledge, the ideal and goal of higher education is repetition, compilation and reproduction, and the traditional goals of higher education, such as the formation of a scientific and philosophical outlook, self-improvement, creative thinking, the ability to identify and pose problems, create new knowledge, degenerate into procedures that describe the "machine learning" algorithm in the technical field.In this sense, the dehumanization of education can lead to a global anthropological crisis, the result of which will be the destruction of the cultural space in which humanity existed.Understanding and discussing this risk will allow universities to review and improve their educational strategies, taking into account the cognitive, ethical and social issues highlighted.