The article considers the possibilities of thesaurus approach in the development of humanitarian thinking of schoolchildren in the conditions of regionalization of education. Local orientation, as one of the features of humanitarian thinking, is a condition of reflexive understanding of personal experience in the context of universal values on the borders of cultures. It is proved that humanitarian thinking is based on personal experience (obtained as a result of selective understanding of the world by the subject), which is arranged as a thesaurus, performs its role and functions. Methods of work with a personal thesaurus, ways of involving students in a special dialogue based on the comparison of thesaurus and their discussion are proposed. It is shown that as a result of the application of the thesaurus approach, schoolchildren form the attitudes of holistic humanitarian thinking in the conditions of the glocal world, which are manifested in the appeal to their own experience, its commensurate with the experience, meanings and values of other people.

Keywords: humanitarian thinking, glocality, regionalization of education, thesaurus, thesaurus approach.