Traditional (Folk) Culture in Modern Russian Comprehensive School

DOI

10.2991/icpcs-19.2019.73How to use a DOI?

Keywords

ethnic interactions, Russian traditional culture, unity in diversity, primary school, patriotic education

Abstract

The given paper discusses ways in which modern educational system could include traditional (folk) culture of ethnic groups, sharing the same territory, into curricular and extra-curricular activities at primary school. The authors describe stages of research and experimental work that have been conducted since 2011 within the frames of the federal experimental platform made up of four Russian educational institutions. Initiated by the Federal Institute for Education Development (Moscow, Russia), the described project aims at designing alternative educational programs that will take into account the rich cultural heritage of ethnic groups living on the territory of Mari El Republic (a provincial region of Russia). The paper provides an introduction to the history of Russian research in the field of ethnic interactions. The stages of the research and experimental work done by the authors are described in detail. An overview of ethnographic material is presented as well as of mechanisms underlying certain calendar and family rites and traditions. The general philosophical principle of unity in diversity is referred to as the methodological ground of the research and practical work at school. Civic and patriotic education enriched in folk culture of different ethnic groups, in the authors’ opinion, can provide new solutions and means that would ensure fruitful and peaceful interethnic communication of multinational population of the Russian Federation in future. Thus, the article focuses on the issue of establishing an identity of a citizen that would combine and harmonize a variety of identities of ethnic groups, inhabiting Russia, into one single whole.

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© 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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AU  - Tatyana Zolotova
AU  - Natalya Efimova
PY  - 2019/05
DA  - 2019/05
TI  - Traditional (Folk) Culture in Modern Russian Comprehensive School
BT  - Proceedings of the 2019 International Conference on Pedagogy, Communication and Sociology (ICPCS 2019)
PB  - Atlantis Press
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EP  - 334
SN  - 2352-5398
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