Some Problems of Cultural Education in Kazakhstan

Abstract

The given problem existing in Kazakhstan from long time has been intensified with collapse of the Soviet Union. Kazakh people have felt accruing need of self--identification in new socio--historical and geopolitical conditions. It was especially important with respect to interrelations and interaction of Kazakh people with Islamic, Turkic and Western world. The youth of Kazakhstan especially needed and needs in the light of enormous and amplifying ideological influence from the outside “binding” to own ideals, values and forms of spirituality of Kazakh people, its historically implanted traditions, customs, wisdom of daily life. In question solution a special role is played by education and self--education of youth and, in particular, religious Islamic education. Merits of the outstanding Kazakh poet and educator Abai Kunanbayev in propagation of studying of Russian language and familiarizing through it to the European culture are widely known to the public. At the same time, its follower and relative Shakarim Kudaiberdiev had underlined the importance of traditional belief of Kazakhs-Islam in self-identification and spiritually moral self-standing and nation developments.