The Experience of Ukraine and Kazakhstan of Digitalization Education Under Quarantine Conditions

Abstract

The article aims to study features of digitalization of education in the post-Soviet space under quarantine conditions: the experience of Ukraine and Kazakhstan. While the society of Western Europe starts all the transformations from the personality change, waiting for changes from outside is a characteristic feature for our sociocultural, the post-Soviet area. The existing crisis of social transformations gives an essential stimulus to active formation of a new paradigm of social relations. Both for developed countries, which believed that the onset of a crisis was a problem for the future, so for Ukraine and Kazakhstan, which already live in conditions of combined social systems, the pandemic came as a surprise. Thus, the education must response quickly to such changes, forming new approaches, forms and methods of knowledge of social discourse. The aim of the article is to study new models of educational practices (in particular digitalization) that became the most common in society during the period of crisis associated with quarantine conditions, accompanied by forced self-isolation of citizens and determining roles in online learning, allowing to formulate new strategies for adapting to the conditions of limiting social activity. The authors disclosed its main components, identified key aspects of Internet prospects of studying. Two relatively separate directions of this phenomenon analysis have been analyzed. Special attention has been paid to the research of priorities of digital education.