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https://doi.org/10.34075/sb.63.1.3

Challenges of the digital culture in education in the family - “Tehnological disconnect ” and its moral implications on education in the family

Damir Šehić ; University of Zadar Department of Theology and Catechetics


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Abstract

The effects of digital culture have transformed society and human ethos, and exponential digitalization has led to an anthropological transformation. By causing profound and complex changes in all levels of the sociocultural environment, digital culture has also changed the psychological, physiological, spiritual, and moral consequences of an individual and family in general. The challenges that digital culture poses to family life by modifying relations of spouses, are also reflected in the upbringing of children and their education, reshaping language, changing mentality, and restructuring value hierarchies. This paper approaches the topic through two thematic units, the first of which aims to detect some of the most serious challenges of digital culture confronting education in the family. The second part discusses the phenomenon of the “technological disconnect” of family members and some aspects of the challenges that this new phenomenon poses to education in the family. This part of the paper discusses the “technological disconnect” of parents and its implications on children and their moral education, observing the problems of shifting responsibility for upbringing and education to the technology and media, as well as the phenomenon of parental alienation syndrome. While not disregarding all the benefits of the postmodern digital culture, this work aims at emphasizing and contributing to the discussion on the negative implications of “technological disconnect” on the moral aspect of education in the family.

Keywords

digital culture; “technological disconnect”; moral education; education in family

Hrčak ID:

302909

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https://hrcak.srce.hr/302909

Publication date:

24.5.2023.

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