Fostering a democratic culture of pupils as a target function of an educational organisation

Abstract

The article describes the concept of "democratic culture of the individual" as an integrative quality that ensures the effectiveness of over-situational social interaction of a person, it substantiates the need to educate this quality among pupils in modern educational conditions. The article presents the results of an experimental study organised by the author of the article on the basis of six rural and urban schools in one of the regions of the Russian Federation, the result of which is a description of the main activities of subjects of educational relations, the comprehensive implementation of which ensures the success of solving the problems of fostering a democratic culture as a target function of an educational organisation: the development of a system of democratic representations of subjects educational relations, organising the interaction of the educational process' participants on the basis of democratic norms and principles, improving the practices of organising educational and extracurricular activities of pupils.