The Image of an Ideal History Teacher from the Recollections about the Russian School in the 1840s and 1850s

This article discusses the teaching methods that shaped the Russian school in the 19th century. The image of an “ideal teacher” is analyzed based on the recollections of historians of that period. The dynamics of its features is explored on a historical time scale. The factors that forced its transf...

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Main Author: N. G. Kozina
Format: Article
Language:Russian
Published: Kazan Federal University 2023-10-01
Series:Učënye Zapiski Kazanskogo Universiteta: Seriâ Gumanitarnye Nauki
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Online Access:https://uzakugu.elpub.ru/jour/article/view/13
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description This article discusses the teaching methods that shaped the Russian school in the 19th century. The image of an “ideal teacher” is analyzed based on the recollections of historians of that period. The dynamics of its features is explored on a historical time scale. The factors that forced its transformation and evolution are considered. The sources used include memoirs written between the 1860s and 1870s, as well as those published at the turn of the 19th–20th centuries. The first group of memoirs is characterized by the juxtaposition of the “old” and “new” history teachers who differed in their preferred “teaching methods”, moral beliefs, and attitudes to teaching. In the second group of memoirs, the trend to a negative view of the “old” teachers and the effectiveness of their methods is rejected, while the “young” teachers are criticized. The obtained results show that an “ideal history teacher” was endowed by the memoirists of the 1840s and 1850s with such new personal and professional qualities as: humanity, morality, “expertise” (a high level of scientific knowledge), as well as a sincere desire to awake students’ interest in what they are being taught and to help them become self-reliant in their reasoning.
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spelling doaj.art-d2a2ba22c64d459fa72b6a55cb2646622024-04-16T12:54:20ZrusKazan Federal UniversityUčënye Zapiski Kazanskogo Universiteta: Seriâ Gumanitarnye Nauki2541-77382500-21712023-10-011651-213214210.26907/2541-7738.2023.1-2.132-14212The Image of an Ideal History Teacher from the Recollections about the Russian School in the 1840s and 1850sN. G. Kozina0Kazan Branch of the Russian State University of JusticeThis article discusses the teaching methods that shaped the Russian school in the 19th century. The image of an “ideal teacher” is analyzed based on the recollections of historians of that period. The dynamics of its features is explored on a historical time scale. The factors that forced its transformation and evolution are considered. The sources used include memoirs written between the 1860s and 1870s, as well as those published at the turn of the 19th–20th centuries. The first group of memoirs is characterized by the juxtaposition of the “old” and “new” history teachers who differed in their preferred “teaching methods”, moral beliefs, and attitudes to teaching. In the second group of memoirs, the trend to a negative view of the “old” teachers and the effectiveness of their methods is rejected, while the “young” teachers are criticized. The obtained results show that an “ideal history teacher” was endowed by the memoirists of the 1840s and 1850s with such new personal and professional qualities as: humanity, morality, “expertise” (a high level of scientific knowledge), as well as a sincere desire to awake students’ interest in what they are being taught and to help them become self-reliant in their reasoning.https://uzakugu.elpub.ru/jour/article/view/13russian schoolteacherteaching methodsmemoirshistorians of the 19th century
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The Image of an Ideal History Teacher from the Recollections about the Russian School in the 1840s and 1850s
Učënye Zapiski Kazanskogo Universiteta: Seriâ Gumanitarnye Nauki
russian school
teacher
teaching methods
memoirs
historians of the 19th century
title The Image of an Ideal History Teacher from the Recollections about the Russian School in the 1840s and 1850s
title_full The Image of an Ideal History Teacher from the Recollections about the Russian School in the 1840s and 1850s
title_fullStr The Image of an Ideal History Teacher from the Recollections about the Russian School in the 1840s and 1850s
title_full_unstemmed The Image of an Ideal History Teacher from the Recollections about the Russian School in the 1840s and 1850s
title_short The Image of an Ideal History Teacher from the Recollections about the Russian School in the 1840s and 1850s
title_sort image of an ideal history teacher from the recollections about the russian school in the 1840s and 1850s
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teacher
teaching methods
memoirs
historians of the 19th century
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