Primary School Student’s Spiritual and Moral Education and Digitalization of Education: The Search for Consensus

Abstract

The relevance of the research is due to the transformation digitalization of education, and changes in its common functions. The process of education digitalization has negative and positive features and development trends. In particular, the education digitalization reduces the importance of cultural and humanistic orientation of education, and its potential in the field of person’s spiritual and moral education at the stage of primary general education. In this regard, this article is aimed at identifying effective pedagogical conditions for the primary school children’s spiritual and moral education in a digital educational environment.The leading methodological approach in the article is the cultural approach, which is in close relationship with the axiological and environmental approaches, which make it possible to outline the circle of traditional cultural values that serve as the basis for construction of the educational environment. Comprehension and analysis of various value systems, relevant regional pedagogical experience allows us to identify pedagogical conditions that contribute to primary school student’s spiritual and moral formation in the digital educational environment.The article offers pedagogical conditions that contribute to improve the process’ efficiency of primary school students’ spiritual and moral formation in the education’s digitalization conditions. The materials presented in the article will help the further development of the problem, the development of the specific techniques for the primary school students’ spiritual and moral education technology.