Tkachuk E.A. 1
1 Irkutsk Regional In-Service Teacher Training Institute
This literature review covers the problems of informatization influence upon the social and hygienic aspects of forming Russian schoolchildren’s lifestyle and health. The article describes modern aspects of creating quality of education in conditions of informatization. The problems of forming the lifestyle and health are shown from the point of view of Strauss–Howe generational theory. The author gives the reasons of fundamental civilization change: 1) accelerating the pace of life and increasing the volume of information stream directly connected with this process; it creates the problem of information selection, revealing the main and filtrating unnecessary points, substitution of texts by their summaries and abstracts, replacing the words by abbreviations; 2) following from the accelerating the pace of life requirement of up-to-the-minute information and the speed of its coming in; 3) increasing the informational variety; 4) increasing the quantity of the routine affairs a person simultaneously deals with; 5) growth of democracy and dialogueness on different levels of social system, transition of rhetoric into dialectics, preaching into discussion.