WOKE CULTURE IN THE US SECONDARY AND HIGHER EDUCATION (TERMINOLOGICAL ASPECT)

Abstract

The subject of the influence of the awakened culture on the vocabulary of the American secondary and higher education system is discussed in this article. The relevance of the research is determined by the need to systematize new terminological units that reflect the rapidly changing realities of the modern world and that are formed on the border of conventional disciplines. The aim of the research is to study the lexical and semantic specificity and the process of terminologization of units that have emerged under the influence of woke-culture on the US education. The paper material consists of 426 terms selected from 42 popular science articles published from 2020 to 2026. The study analyzes concepts such as woke, cancel culture, critical race theory, colorblindness, whiteness, etc., which have evolved from slang into terms. The analysis has revealed their semantic variability, ideological load, and direct influence on educational practices and methods of knowledge transfer. The research has proven that the terminology system of education dynamically reacts to external ideological challenges, ceasing to be neutral.