The prospects for humanities were discussed at KBSU
November 9–10, 2023 at Kabardino-Balkarian State University named after Kh. M. Berbekov hosted the II All-Russian scientific and practical conference with international participation “The Paradigm of Modern Humanities and Education: Traditions and Prospects.”
In addition to the Kabardino-Balkarian State University, the conference was attended by the Institute of Humanitarian Research of the Kabardino-Balkarian Scientific Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Nalchik), the Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation (Moscow), Ivanovo State University (Ivanovo), Yugo -Ossetian State University named after A.A. Tibilov (Tskhinvali, South Ossetia), Abkhaz State University (Sukhum, Abkhazia), Leningrad State University. A.S. Pushkin, Public School No. 98 (Tbilisi, Georgia), Dagestan State University, Central Medical University named after. F.Sh. Alborova (Tskhinvali, Republic of South Ossetia).
The purpose of the conference is to create a platform for interdisciplinary cooperation in the field of humanities, exchange of scientific and practical experience between representatives of educational organizations and research institutes, discussion of current problems in the field of philology, linguoculturology, pedagogy, methods of teaching foreign/native/Russian languages, psychology and Caucasian studies,
– commented the organizer of the conference, head of the department of foreign languages at the Social Sciences and Humanities Institute of KBSU, candidate of philological sciences, associate professor Rita Kenetova.
Opening the conference, acting vice-rector for Research Professor Svetlana Khashirova noted:
Currently, in the context of a difficult geopolitical situation in the world, social transformation, and globalization, the development of our country is impossible without the promotion of humanitarian education. And special attention should be paid to strengthening the impact of humanities education on the socio-cultural processes that take place in our world, on the economy, on the activation of innovation, because it is humanities education that determines the economic development of the state. One of our main tasks in modern conditions is to preserve the achievements of humanitarian education, to prevent a decline in its quality and to develop humanitarian education in a new way. Nowadays, humanitarian education penetrates into all sciences. A new profession has emerged: artificial intelligence teacher. That is, people who have received a humanities education are now in high demand as teachers of artificial intelligence. I see the future of the humanities precisely in the development of humanitarian technologies, the introduction of new methods for studying the humanities.
I wish all participants success, a fruitful exchange of experience, and the discovery of new ideas for the development of humanities education.
During the plenary session, the head of the Department of English Language and Professional Communication of the Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation, Doctor of Economic Sciences, Candidate of Pedagogical Sciences, Professor Marina Melnichuk expressed great gratitude to the leadership of KBSU, the directorate of SHI and the Department of Foreign Languages for the opportunity to participate in the conference dedicated to the humanities, and on behalf of the leadership of the Financial University, presented gratitude and letters of gratitude for joint work in the implementation of the project “My Motherland: Big and Small” within the framework of the acting Rosmolodezh grant. Rector of KBSU Professor Yuri Altudov, Scientific Secretary of KBSU Doctor of Philology. Irina Ashinova, director of SHI, associate professor Muslim Tamazov, deputy. Director of the SGI for education quality management, head. Department of Organization of Work with Youth, Ph.D. Elena Nalchikova, head. Department of Foreign Languages, SHI KBSU, Ph.D., Associate Professor Rita Kenetova, Director of the Institute of Economics and Physics, KBSU, Ph.D. Elena Mashukova, deputy. Director of IPEiF for educational, career guidance and employment of graduates Zhanna Mirzoeva, acting. Director of IMTiIG KBSU, Ph.D. Ramazan Ligidov, head of the department for youth policy and educational work of KBSU Khyzyr Mashukov.
The working part of the plenary session was opened by the head. Department of German and Romance Philology of the SGI KBSU, Doctor of Philology, Professor Rashid Alikaev with a report “The professional picture of the world of a linguist in the light of the concept of the French linguist-sociologist Pierre Bourdieu.”
Presentations were also made by the head of the Department of English and Professional Communication of the Financial University Marina Melnichuk, head. Professor Svetlana Bashieva, Department of Russian Language and General Linguistics, SGI KBSU.
The conference discussed issues of improving humanities education, in particular, introducing the principle of humanization in all areas of knowledge in order to lay the foundations for broad innovative thinking. The participants came to the conclusion that humanities education today should not be professionally isolated, it should be based on interdisciplinarity, because the scope of application of humanitarian knowledge is quite wide rock. Thus, the 21st century should become the century of optimal correspondence between the humanitarian, technical and natural science development of society.