The First All-Russian Congress on Preschool Upbringing

Abstract

In the past few years we have turned more and more to the experience of the first years of Soviet rule and have studied the characteristics of that period. Among events from the history of preschool pedagogy we will focus the readers' attention on congresses dealing with preschool upbringing, specifically the First Congress. In February 1919, the RSFSR People's Commissariat of Education held a one-day conference of heads of preschool subdepartments from governmental regions, at which they discussed organizational questions of the First Congress on Preschool Upbringing. They determined the themes to be discussed, agenda, system of representation, accommodations for the delegates, and so on. In accordance with the conference's decision, four basic questions were submitted: (1) the tasks of public preschool upbringing in connection with new forms of life; (2) the basic type of preschool institution; (3) the training of preschool workers; (4) the organization of work in preschool upbringing in the center and in the outlying localities.