Formation of teacher's information culture as a continuity ensuring factor in secondary and higher education systems withing the digitalization framework

Abstract

Objective: identification of system-forming characteristics, structure components, formation signs and stages of basic component in the teacher's general culture formation - their information culture, defined as one of determining factors in succession mechanisms implementation at systemic levels of secondary and higher education in the Republic of Belarus within the framework of digital transformation measures. Materials and methods. When writing the article, groups of sources were used, including state programs’ documents in the field of digitalization of education, as well as scientific publications on research issues. When working with scientific analytics sources and materials, the following methods were used: sources content analysis, a comparative method. Results. During the study and based on its results, phenomenological features of the teacher's information culture were identified, its structuring, system-forming formation signs and stages were determined. As a whole, solving these problems allows to consider the teachers’ information culture as a complex sociocultural phenomenon, one of the determining factors for ensuring continuity at the systemic levels in secondary and higher education in the context of educational sphere digitalization. Conclusion. The objective of the study has been achieved. The main phenomenological characteristics, structure, signs of formation and the very stages of the teacher's information culture formation were identified, which make it possible to determine the studied phenomenon as a complex and multifaceted one. Its level-formation is described as one of the determining factors of the teacher's personality professional development in relation to the problem of ensuring the continuity at systemic levels of secondary and higher education in digitalization framework of the education sector in the Republic of Belarus.