SCHOOL TEXTBOOK:AND MORAL IMPROVEMENT OF PERSONALITY

Based on the methodology of the ‘theory of generations’, the article presents the peculiarities of personality formation of contemporary Alpha generation adolescents. According to this theory, the emergence of Alpha generation is a natural process of both the society and youth culture development associated with scientific and technological progress in the field of digitalization and IT technologies, and this progress drastically changes the cognitive characteristics of the individual, cultural and inter-communicative relations in the society. The authors highlight the attributes of clip thinking in this group of teenagers and show that this type of thinking is the opposite of linear thinking which allows systematically analyzing objective reality. In this regard, the philologists authoring team of the Tula State Lev Tolstoy Pedagogical University has developed a system of methodological support for teaching based on a special didactic concept of the functional literacy formation with semantic reading being the most important component of it...