Theoretical and Methodological Substantiation of the Phenomenon of “Historical Quantorium” in the Modern Educational Space

The article introduces the concept of “historical quantorium” into scientific circulation. The work analyzes the theoretical and methodological foundations that allow to give it a status definition in scientific, in particular, so-cio-cultural and pedagogical knowledge. According to the article it is demonstrated that the use of this concept, on the one hand, is based on the theory of information society, and on the other hand – on the principles of interdisciplinarity, actively exploited in modern science. Besides, the article presents preliminary results of the academic research work on the problem of creation and functioning of the historical quantorium, carried out by the authors on the basis of the Lipetsk State Pedagogical University named after P.P. Semyonov-Tyan-Shansky under the state assignment. The results obtained show that the use of the potential of information technology in modern historical education allows us to significantly improve the quality of education, as well as successfully take into account modern sociocultural specifics in the educational space of the school.