Pedagogical Challenges of Transhumanism: Possible Threats in the Context of Digitalization

Authors

Yulia VORONTSOVA State University of Management
Maria Adelaida GIL MARTÍNEZ Instituto Cervantes, Madrid
Artur ARAKELYAN State University of Management
Ara YEREMYAN Armenian State Pedagogical University after Khachatur Abovyan

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.24234/wisdom.v17i1.453

Keywords:

Artificial Intelligence, Challenges, Company Ethics, Digital Economy, Economic Disciplines, Economic Literacy, Ethical & Moral Principles, Pedagogical Challenges, Permissible Limit, Transhumanism

Abstract

The article focuses on issues related to the pedagogical challenges of transhumanism. The authors consider possible ways to ensure that students will have a high level of economic literacy in combination with morality. This will allow students to develop an idea of ethical consequences which arise from management decisions made in the context of digitalization. When teaching subjects related to economic cycles, a lecturer faces various challenges formed by the modern transhumanist concept. One of the challenges is to work with the “digital generation” without its knowledge and orientation to moral and ethical principles, especially when students are from non-humanitarian universities. The ability to feel and be aware of fairness and to prefer justice to unjustness is a characteristic gifted to a human being to maintain his or her own internal interests. Transferring this attitude to the company will influence and form its ethical and moral principles in creating and promoting a product aimed at removing the obstacles associated with physical inability. Ethical postulates in teaching economic disciplines will ensure that students realize the concept of acceptable limits for generating income from technological innovations in various sectors of digital economics. In addition, the article presents the advantages and disadvantages of such concepts as variability and alternative education, its national character, continuous education, and intercultural communication.

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Author Biographies

Yulia VORONTSOVA, State University of Management

(PhD in Economics) is Associate Professor of the Department of Management in the Sphere of Culture, Cinema, TV and the Entertainment Industry of the State University of Management, Moscow, Russian Federation. Her areas of interest include management of company economics in various aspects, as well as the research based on the interdisciplinary approach that includes a philosophical aspect. Vorontsova Yu. is the author of 10 monographs and 46 scientific articles. Recent publications: “Human Nature, Transhumanism and Digital Transformation” and “Smart Technologies: Unique Opportunities or the Global Challenges of Transhumanism”.

Maria Adelaida GIL MARTÍNEZ, Instituto Cervantes, Madrid

(researcher, expert) is Senior Lecturer, Instituto Cervantes, Madrid, Spain. Her areas of interest include how to deal with grammar in the classroom, learner corpus and the intercultural approach in teaching foreign languages. Gil Martínez is the author of 13 scientific articles. Recent publications are “The Cross-Cultural Communications Impact on Increasing Business Profitability in Digital Technologies Use” and “Spanish Learner Corpus CAES: A Research on How Russian Learners Use Imperfect Tense in Spanish”.

Artur ARAKELYAN, State University of Management

(Dr. of Science in Economics) is a Professor, the Head of the Department “Management in the Sphere of Culture, Cinema, TV and the Entertainment Industry” of the State University of Management, Moscow, Russian Federation. His areas of interest include management of company economics in various aspects, as well as research based on the interdisciplinary approach that includes a philosophical aspect. Arakelyan is the author of 2 monographs and 22 scientific articles. Recent publications: “Development of the Project Team Organizational Culture” and “Smart Technologies: Unique Opportunities or the Global Challenges of Transhumanism”.

Ara YEREMYAN, Armenian State Pedagogical University after Khachatur Abovyan

(PhD in Law) is the Vice-Rector of the Armenian State Pedagogical University after Khachatur Abovyan (ASPU). He is an Associate Professor at the Department of History and Law. The areas of academic interests include combating transnational organized crime and, in particular, cybersecurity issues, combating money laundering and trafficking in humans. Ara Yeremyan is the co-author of seven monographs and numerous scientific articles, among which, inter alia, are “The Problems of Cybersecurity in the Republic of Armenia” and “Main Aspects of Cybersecurity in the Republic of Armenia” monographs based on an interdisciplinary approach.

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2021-03-21

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VORONTSOVA, Y., GIL MARTÍNEZ, M. A., ARAKELYAN, A., & YEREMYAN, A. (2021). Pedagogical Challenges of Transhumanism: Possible Threats in the Context of Digitalization. WISDOM, 17(1), 162–168. https://doi.org/10.24234/wisdom.v17i1.453

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