Systems and Means of Informatics
2022, Volume 32, Issue 3, pp 116-127
THE STRATEGY OF EUROPEAN DIGITAL EDUCATION: THEORETICAL FOUNDATIONS FOR ITS CREATING
Abstract
The strategy of the European digital education is analyzed, in creating of which the outcomes of two-year monitoring of the state of informatics teaching systems in the regions and countries of Europe, including the Russian Federation, were used. Since the authors of the strategy were analyzing the teaching system state of informatics, they needed to give a modern description of this discipline.
The strategy uses an approach to positioning informatics within modern scientific knowledge, considering the absence of a conventional definition of its subject area. The aim of the paper is to describe this approach which includes two stages.
At the first stage, a list of propositions is given that propose an approximate description of informatics as an educational discipline but does not pretend to be its strict definition. At the second stage, three publications are listed that give mutually complementary characteristics of informatics. In the paper, these publications are considered as three sources of theoretical foundations of the analyzed strategy.
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Title
THE STRATEGY OF EUROPEAN DIGITAL EDUCATION: THEORETICAL FOUNDATIONS FOR ITS CREATING
Journal
Systems and Means of Informatics
Volume 32, Issue 3, pp 116-127
Cover Date
2022-06-11
DOI
10.14357/08696527220311
Print ISSN
0869-6527
Publisher
Institute of Informatics Problems, Russian Academy of Sciences
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Key words
digital education; monitoring of teaching systems; informatics as a fundamental science; informatics as an educational discipline; strategy of teaching informatics
Authors
I. M. Zatsman 
Author Affiliations
Federal Research Center "Computer Science and Control", Russian Academy of Sciences, 44-2 Vavilov Str., Moscow 119333, Russian Federation
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