Open AccessINNOVATIONS IN THE SYSTEM OF GENERAL EDUCATION OF THE NORTH CAUCASUS IN THE LATE 1950 - THE 1960 s (Case study of autonomous republics of the region)
Author(s) -
G Sh Kaimarazov
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
istoriâ, arheologiâ i ètnografiâ kavkaza
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2618-849X
pISSN - 2618-6772
DOI - 10.32653/ch13434-42
Subject(s) - work (physics) , process (computing) , vocational education , political science , pedagogy , sociology , engineering , computer science , mechanical engineering , operating system
Basing on the study of reliable sources and materials, accumulated historiographic experience, the author of the article makes the first attempt to generalize the innovations in comprehensive schools of Dagestan, Kabardino-Balkarian, North Ossetian and Chechen-Ingush ASSR in the late 1950s - the 1960s, introduction of which was to contribute to the further improvement of general education. The complete plans for development of comprehensive schools worked out by the country’s leadership were to ensure the expansion of school network, transformation of seven-year schools into eight-year ones, strengthening of polytechnical education, construction of new school buildings, development of the educational and methodological base of schools, additional production of educational literature, more qualitative training and professional development of teaching staff. During the decade under consideration, special measures were taken to increase the involvement of mountain girls in senior school, there were significant positive changes in combining theoretical training with socially useful work, and improving the school’s connection with life. In the process of labor training in agriculture, industry, in school training and production workshops, school children were trained to perform certain types of productive activities in order to form an organic need for it. The presence of a certain reserve of leavers of comprehensive schools made it possible to increase admission to higher educational institutions and specialised secondary school, to carry out competitive selection of applicants for continuing education. The author of the article considers the purpose of the innovations introduced within the period under consideration, presents the real results of their practical implementation, the reasons that led to incomplete achievement of the goals of introduction of polytechnical education in the planned decisions of the state and party authorities of the USSR and the autonomous republics.