The Development of Educational and Methodical Framework of the Religious Educational Process in Secular Secondary Schools during the Modernization of the Russian Society (The Second Half of the 19th – Early 20th Centuries)

Gulshat M Mustafina,Anton V Yermoshin

doi:10.5539/jsd.v8n4p86

Abstract

The importance of the research is determined by the cognitive functions of the institutional history, in this case in terms of the study of various aspects of the educational system as a special sphere of cooperation between the state and public institutions, as well as human and science. The aim of the article is to determine and analyze tendencies in the development of educational and methodological framework of the religious educational process (the process of teaching fundamentals of religion) in the secular educational environment of the particular era – the modernization period (the second half of the 19th – early 20th centuries) and in the particular region (Kazan as a typical provincial center of the Russian Empire). The main method of this study is the historical-comparative method, which allows to compare the experience in use of educational materials in secondary schools in Kazan applying historical records analysis. The results presented in the article show the influence of social, economic, political and cultural process taking place in the Russian Empire during the period of modernization on the religious educational process in secular schools, manifested, in particular, in the pluralization of educational and methodological framework. The materials of the article may be useful for the studies within the institutional history of education and the church, as well as for modern discussions about the place of religion in the secular educational environment.

Highlights

1.1 BackgroundModern Russian educational environment, which is in a continuous process of reformation and reorganization, stimulate the researchers to conduct a systematic research of the historical experience gained in this field
The results presented in the article show the influence of social, economic, political and cultural process taking place in the Russian Empire during the period of modernization on the religious educational process in secular schools, manifested, in particular, in the pluralization of educational and methodological framework
The materials of the article may be useful for the studies within the institutional history of education and the church, as well as for modern discussions about the place of religion in the secular educational environment

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1.1 BackgroundModern Russian educational environment, which is in a continuous process of reformation and reorganization, stimulate the researchers to conduct a systematic research of the historical experience gained in this field. Debates in modern Russia regarding the place and importance of religion in the educational environment of secular society indicate that this problem has not been solved and demand analysis of the experience of pre-revolutionary period which is characterized by the official functioning of the system of religious education in secular schools on the one hand, and by continuous discussions about this issue on the other. The study of the formation of secular secondary education in the Russian Empire was significantly developed during the Soviet period (Ganelin, 1947; Smirnov, 1954). These historiographic parallels determine another line of research – the study of the history of interaction www.ccsenet.org/jsd. Modern researches often overlook this aspect, and the researchers of the Soviet period bypassed it for ideological reasons, criticizing it and leaving without analysis certain aspects, such as the development of educational and methodological framework

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