The Role of Folk Traditions in the Spiritual Experience of the Information Society (Philosophical and Pedagogical Aspects)

In this paper, the authors focus on the development of information and computer technologies in relation to the peculiarities concerning the development of the spiritual experience in society associated with folk culture and folk art. The article examines the concept of “information society”, substantiates the importance of drawing attention to folk culture and applied creativity by the example of the realities in the Russian school education system. The society of post-industrial reality, as a rule, gets acquainted with information to a greater extent in a ready-made format and unlimited scope. This is both an advantage of the information reality and its disadvantage. With the increasing standardization of information resources, there is a lack of creative thinking. Creativity in the modern world with the predominance of ready-made information products is becoming a deficit in the spiritual experience of mankind.