Humanitarian pedagogical quantorium as a tool for updating the future teachers’ training system in the subject area “Social sciences” in the context of digitalisation

Introduction. Digital technologies today have become an essential part of modern educational practices, including the issues of training of future teachers in the subject area “Social sciences”. Studying at higher educational institutions, they should master special professional competencies (universal and professional/methodological), which will enable them to apply modern educational technologies and digital teaching tools in their future professional activities. At the same time, the set and content of such competencies in a rapidly developing digital environment cannot be static, just like the competence formation model itself. In these terms, of great significance is the modelling of the educational process based on quantoria. The purpose of this article is to outline the conditions for introducing the model of a humanitarian pedagogical quantorium into the training process for future teachers of the subject area “Social sciences”. Methods. The empirical study involved 203 respondents – undergraduates of three pedagogical universities (Bashkir State Pedagogical University named after M. Akmulla, Ufa; Orenburg State Pedagogical University, Orenburg; Tula State Pedagogical University named after L.N. Tolstoy, Tula). All participants were trained in educational programmes in the field “Pedagogical education”, with specialisations covering the subject area “Social sciences” (future teachers of history, social studies, economics, and cultural studies). The main research methods were: the analysis of psychological, pedagogical and methodological sources, study of web resources; familiarisation with existing pedagogical experience; observation (practice of implementing the humanitarian quantorium model); interpretation of results (student assessment covering learners aged 20 to 23). KEYWORDS Results. The study revealed the conditions for implementing the model of a humanitarian pedagogical quantorium in the training of future teachers in the subject area “Social sciences”. The diagnostics and obtained results made it possible to determine the content of the universal and professional methodological competencies of future teachers, conducive to the effective use of modern technologies and digital tools, and to specify the functional resource of the locations (quanta) of the humanitarian pedagogical quantorium in the context of the being-formed competencies. Conclusion. The conditions for implementing the model of the humanitarian pedagogical quantorium in the future teachers’ training process in the subject area “Social sciences” were determined (methodological approaches, work organisation principles, reliance on the principles of contensive/functional and methodological content of locations). The described conditions influence the formation of universal and professional /methodological competencies. Their list has been structured depending on the content of the location (quantum).