Peculiarities of professional training of penal institution personnel during the Great Patriotic War

Abstract

The research subject is the actualization of organizational and pedagogic peculiarities of professional training of penal institutions personnel during the Great Patriotic War. Professional training of penitentiary personnel in today’s Russia, aimed at the formation of competent professionals, traditionally deals with the question of continuity of education fundamentals at particular time line.   The research is based on archive materials of the State Archive of the Russian Federation. The research methodology includes the method of historicism, and the system approach, the chronological method (historical periodisation), the methods of historical retrospective and historical comparison, which help to analyze archive sources from the viewpoint of contemporary historical and pedagogical science.  The authors study the historical and pedagogical materials and analyze the experience, as well as theoretical and practical results of the search for new approaches, means and methods of professional training and improvement of conceptual background of the educational sphere of penal service of Russia.  During the period under study (the years of the Great Patriotic War), the most effective organizational and pedagogical models were searched for, as well as their orientation towards school education with prevailing in-service training.