Foresight laboratory to form participative and digital culture of future teachers in the humanities (international experience)

The article provides a review on the foresight research in the field of education, determines the prerequisites of its development and claims the feasibility of creating a virtual foresight laboratory for the Humanities major in the Republic of Kazakhstan. The objectives of the research are to outline the foresight-technologies and to analyze the attitudes of stakeholders in education towards foresight research. The review and analytical part of the study reveals the features of the functioning of foresight laboratories in the foreign countries, mainly in technical, economic and business profiles. The authors present the data of an anonymous survey and come to the conclusion that to form participatory digital culture of future teachers it is necessary to create this communication tool in the professional education system of the humanitarian cycle between the subjects of the micro-, meso- and macro- environment of the educational space. The proposed areas of the open foresight laboratory consider the development of meta-competencies among students of the humanities profile in the education process. The distance format of the virtual foresight laboratory is characterized in terms of mobility and flexibility, which significantly reduce the cost of the research and the implementation of the data obtained. This study is practice-oriented and is at the stage of modeling a generalized hub in a digital format.