School and generation Z: characteristics of perception of knowledge and information in the new technological reality
https://doi.org/10.54884/1815-7041-2026-86-1-37-45
Abstract
The article is devoted to the study of the peculiarities of perception of school knowledge by modern schoolchildren belonging to generation Z, the first generation who grew up in the era of digital technologies and the Internet. The study was conducted on the basis of a qualitative sociological method – a focus group with the participation of high school students from the city of Krasnoyarsk. The authors consider various factors influencing the perception of school knowledge and Internet information by adolescent culture. In the context of the new technological reality, the relevance of schoolchildren's understanding of information as the main trend of modern education and its opposition to thinking as an independent process of critical assimilation of reality is being clarified. It is argued that the difference in the framework of the "knowledge – information" dichotomy in relation to school and the Internet plays an essential role in substantiating the tasks and functions of the educational process in a modern school, which is dealing with a completely new generation in its socio-cultural characteristics.
About the Authors
O. V. Myasoutov
Siberian Institute of Business, Management and Psychology; Krasnoyarsk School № 11, Secondary School № 10 named after Yu.A. Ovchinnikov
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Oleg V. Myasoutov – Candidate of cultural sciences, Associate prof., Department of Social Sciences; Teacher
Krasnoyarsk
T. I. Casanova
Secondary School № 10 named after Yu.A. Ovchinnikov
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Tatyana I. Casanova – Principal
Krasnoyarsk
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Myasoutov O.V., Casanova T.I. School and generation Z: characteristics of perception of knowledge and information in the new technological reality. Man and Education. 2026;(1):37-45. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.54884/1815-7041-2026-86-1-37-45
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