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CAREER OF THE TEACHER IN THE CONDITIONS OF TRANSFORMATION OF THE RUSSIAN SYSTEM OF PEDAGOGICAL EDUCATION AT THE BEGINNING OF THE 20TH CENTURY (THE STUDY OF A. K. VOLNIN’S BIOGRAPHY) // Pedagogical Review. 2019. Issue 5 (27). P. 221-235

Introduction. Many aspects of history of formation at the beginning of the XX century, both the pre-revolutionary and Soviet periods, have still not received adequate lighting in historical and pedagogical studies. With development of the economic sphere of the state at a boundary of XIX – the beginnings of the 20th century, education became mass and gained more and more secular character, and the system of training of teachers demanded change in approaches and methods of teaching. Reforms in the system of pedagogical education in the conditions of revolutionary events, changes of political regimes in the years of civil war, formation of the Soviet school system forced to look for actively more effective strategy for preservation and development of traditions of teachers’ training. In these conditions, people who defined professional formation of future teacher and sought to keep the educational capacity of educational institutions in any circumstances were of particular importance. Research objective is to restore Alexander Konstantinovich Volnin’s biography – the famous representative of the Russian professional and pedagogical corporation of the beginning of the 20th century. His pedagogical career was connected with active participation in processes of reforming of the teacher’s institutes directed to improvement of the principles of training of teachers and the organization of business of national education. Material and methods. Article is prepared on the basis of unique archive materials and the publication of various profile editions. Results and discussion. Throughout the Soviet period of historical and pedagogical researches the name of A. K. Volnin was mentioned only in connection with his pupil famous for the Soviet teacher A. S. Makarenko. These circumstances made impossible an objective research of the biography of Alexander Konstantinovich. Using the fractional information collected from the most different and quite often contradictory sources it is established that the major stages professional Alexander Konstantinovich Volnin’s activity in the sphere of pedagogical education, were connected with history of the Poltava and New Nikolaev teacher’s institute. He took the most active part in development of provisions of reform of teacher’s institutes of 1917. He was an expert and the methodologist in the field of training of teachers for labor school. Conclusion. Studying of history of development of pedagogical education, traditions of teaching, restoration of historical continuity in work of various generations of teachers is an important factor of development of pedagogical science and daily teacher’s practice.

Keywords: Alexander Konstantinovich Volnin, history of pedagogical education, reform of teacher’s institutes, A. S. Makarenko, Poltava teacher’s institute, New Nikolaev teacher’s institute

THE QUESTION OF INTRODUCTION OF UNIVERSAL EDUCATION IN THE ACTIVITIES OF THE STATE DUMA OF THE RUSSIAN EMPIRE // Pedagogical Review. 2020. Issue 6 (34). P. 199-213

The introduction of universal primary education in the activities of the State Duma of the Russian Empire was for a long time not under the attention of the researchers, and interest in the topic increased due to the restoration of parliamentary traditions and deep reform of the education system. Historical sources show that at the beginning of the XX century, this issue was probably the only one that did not cause disagreements between political parties. But it was never resolved because of the six years of discussions between the factions in the State Duma, the Duma and the Council of State, the Parliament and the Government on related issues – the mandatory or granting of the right to receive primary education, the amount of funding and the nature of the management of Ministerial and Church schools, the language of teaching in primary schools in areas with non-Russian populations, about the role of local governments in the development of school Affairs, and others. The First State Duma, owing to its short existence, was unable to consider the draft law on the introduction of universal primary education, the Second Duma began its work, but its early dissolution did not allow any significant decisions to be taken on the issue. The Third State Duma was the only one in the pre-revolutionary history of Russia that lasted a full term of office, and the results of its activities in the field of education gave it the name “Duma of national education”. More than 300 legislative initiatives in the field of science and education were considered, including 15 draft laws on primary education, and additional allocations for primary schools increased by almost 40 million rubles a year. But the bill passed by the Duma on the introduction of universal primary education did not pass in the State Council. The Deputies of the fourth convocation again discussed the content of the draft developed by the Third Duma. The main cause of the conflicts was the issue of parochial schools. The last time in the history of the Duma a bill was introduced by the Minister of Public Education, P. N. Ignatiev, on 28 August 1916, but the decision on it was never made. However, during the years of operation of the State Duma, unprecedented resources have been allocated for the development of primary education, the training of teachers, the salaries of teachers and the construction of new schools, and public spending on schools almost doubled.

Keywords: universal primary education, primary education, primary schools, elementary schools, the State Duma, the Russian Empire

LEGISLATIVE INITIATIVES TO REFORM PEDAGOGICAL EDUCATION IN THE FAR EAST IN 1918–1922 // Pedagogical Review. 2021. Issue 1 (35). P. 152-166

In the objective processes of integration and unification in the field of education, each national system relies on the existing potential and accumulated domestic experience. The purpose of this article is to reconstruct and generalize the experience of the Far Eastern authorities in reforming teacher education and teacher training institutions during the Civil War. The main source for writing the work was archival materials stored in the funds of the Russian State Historical Archive of the Far East. The Ministry of Public Education of the Provisional Siberian Government has repeatedly raised the issues of transformation of the teacher training system, but no substantive bill was adopted. Since 1919, Ministry of National Education of the government of A.V. Kolchak dealt with education, and this period is associated with the increased decentralization of management and the introduction of the institute of commissioners. Since the end of 1920, the regional governments operating in the Far East formed a policy towards pedagogical educational institutions under the influence of the ideas of the People’s Commissariat of Education. Regional authorities, despite their desire to democratize governance institutions, have not been able to overcome the inertia of accumulated problems in the field of education. The legislative activity of the Ministry of Public Education of the Provisional Siberian Government was ineffective and short-term. With the transition of the Far Eastern territories under the jurisdiction of local government bodies, regional departments of public education followed the path of reforming individual pedagogical educational institutions. On the path of the reform, the government of the Far Eastern Republic has moved a little further than the Siberian Government. The reforms were based on the soviet principles of school development. As the general crisis intensified, the local authorities took less and less into account the opinions of the professional pedagogical community, and more and more often the changes were of a prescriptive nature. As a result of ill-considered reconstructions of teachers’ institutes and seminaries, the system of teacher education that required reforms but was well-coordinated and developing, was destroyed, replaced with ineffective transitional and limited forms that cost significant organizational and financial efforts, and the planned reforms were not implemented properly.

Keywords: history of teacher education in Siberia, educational reforms, Khabarovsk Teachers‘ Institute, Chita Institute of Public Education, Far Eastern State Pedagogical Academy named after Ushinsky, Khabarovsk Pedagogical Courses II, Civil war in the Far East

REVIEW OF MODERN RESEARCH ON THE HISTORY OF TEACHER EDUCATION IN SIBERIA AND THE FAR EAST IN THE 1917 – EARLY 1930S // Pedagogical Review. 2021. Issue 6 (40). P. 146-161

Historical experience is the basis for carrying out modern educational reforms; therefore, problems of the history of education occupy a significant place in modern historical and historical-pedagogical research. In the historiography of the development of pedagogical education in Russia, two independent research traditions have been preserved for many years, the first of which was directed to the pre-revolutionary history of education, the second to the history of the Soviet school. As for the history of education during the revolution and the Civil War, there were practically no deep scientific works, especially in the regional context, until the end of the 20th century. In the first decades of Soviet power, in historiography, the attitude towards the problems of the development of education was directly related to ideological attitudes that presupposed a critical or exclusively negative attitude towards the pre-revolutionary legacy. Gradually, the erroneous opinion was confirmed that domestic pedagogical education began with the organization in the USSR of educational institutions of a new type – pedagogical institutes. In the 1950s – 1960s the history of pedagogical education was often considered as a separate area of scientific research, however, researchers focused on the achievements and innovations in the organization of Soviet education, completely disregarding objective data on the numerous borrowings of the People’s Commissariat of Education of policies, methods and techniques for managing the education system that developed in the pre-revolutionary period. When from the late 1960s researchers got the opportunity to access many, previously closed archives, the study of the history of teacher education has found a “second wind”. But only since the 1990s the dogmatic attitude to historical material from 1917 to the early 1930s is gradually disappearing, which was facilitated by a change in public attitudes, freedom of speech, and the availability of extensive historical materials to researchers. In the post- Soviet period, the question of the continuity of the pre-Soviet and Soviet history, including the history of education, acquired particular relevance. In recent decades, a significant number of publications have appeared in which the problems of teacher training in the region in the first decades of Soviet power are directly or as related. At the same time, in many modern publications there are inaccuracies in wording, erroneous facts that wander from work to work. Sometimes authors use a limited selection of sources, interpret the data too freely, which undoubtedly reduces the quality of scientific research. Analysis of scientific literature showed that scientific research, in a complex revealing the development processes in 1917 – early 1930s the strategy of modernizing the Soviet system of pedagogical education and its implementation in the regions is still insufficient. Attention is drawn to the complete absence of modern generalizing works on the history of teacher education in the context of the introduction of universal education in Siberia and the Far East.

Keywords: historiography, history of pedagogical education, history of education in Siberia and in the Far East, analysis of historical literature, education during the Revolution and the Civil War

FORMATION OF A NETWORK OF PEDAGOGICAL EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS IN SIBERIA AND THE FAR EAST UNDER THE CONDITIONS OF THE SOVIET MODERNIZATION OF EDUCATION AND THE INTRODUCTION OF GENERAL EDUCATION IN 1917 – THE BEGINNING OF THE 1930S // Pedagogical Review. 2022. Issue 6 (46). P. 131-148

In the first decades of Soviet power, the attitude to the problems of the development of education was directly related to the ideological guidelines for the rejection of the previous principles of the organization of education, including the obvious achievements of the pre-revolutionary school. The genesis of the Russian system of teacher education was largely due to the objectives of introducing universal education. At the state level, this problem was identified as early as the end of the 19th century, the decision to introduce universal primary education was made by the State Duma of the Russian Empire of the third convocation, but the implementation of the plan turned out to be possible only in the 1930s. In pre-revolutionary Russia, special pedagogical educational institutions worked in the system of the Ministry of Public Education - teacher’s institutes and seminaries. As a result of the Soviet reorganization of the system of teacher education, they were closed or transformed beyond recognition. The formation of a new educational system took place in the context of the revolution and the Civil War, which left its mark on the entire process, especially in Siberia and the Far East, which in June 1918 were outside the policy zone of the People’s Commissariat of Education. With the establishment of Soviet power in the region, a new wave of reorganization of pedagogical educational institutions began, which coincided with the period of «creative searches» of the People’s Commissariat for Education in matters of the structure of pedagogical education, the image of the Soviet «teacher – social worker», and teaching methods. The search for a new model of teacher training in the Soviet school against the backdrop of increased centralization of education management gradually led to the abandonment of experimental approaches to the organization of education. To a large extent, the experience of professional training of teachers was rethought and taken into account with certain adjustments in the content of education and upbringing of the future Soviet teacher. The program for the introduction of universal education in the USSR was carried out at an accelerated pace and was implemented in a short time, already in 1930–1934. in the USSR, universal compulsory education was introduced in rural areas in the amount of an elementary four-year school, and in cities and workers’ settlements – in the amount of a seven-year school. This required great efforts of the whole society and the state: in each regional center and, if there was such an opportunity, then on the basis of the former teacher’s seminaries and institutes, pedagogical institutes and technical schools, pedagogical courses of various levels and purposes were opened; significant financial and human resources have been allocated to create a network of teacher training institutions; the unification of the system of training of pedagogical personnel and the requirements for the qualification of a teacher was carried out.

Keywords: history of education, history of teacher education in Siberia and the Far East, education during the years of the revolution and the Civil War, introduction of universal education, Soviet modernization of education