EVOLUTION OF GNOSEOLOGICAL CONCEPTS OF HIGHER EDUCATION AND ITS DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION

Аннотация

This article presents the processes of changing the epistemological concept of higher education in the course of their historical, sociocultural development from Platonic ideas to a modern emphasis on critical thinking and technology. Universities, as sources of higher education, as well as their conceptual foundations, have gone through a number of stages of development, from schools of theology and "liberal arts" in the Middle Ages, centers of humanization and rationalization of knowledge in the 18- 19 centuries, centers of scientific research and training of professional personnel in the 19 -20 centuries, to institutions of mass higher education aimed at saturating the labor market. Based on this, the stages of the evolution of universities are considered based on their leading activities in the context of modern changes, the fundamental differences between their target and content settings, as well as development prospects in the context of the digitalization of knowledge.