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Blinkova, Alexandra; Vermeer, Paul – British Journal of Religious Education, 2019
Religious education (RE) has been recently introduced into the Russian educational system as a compulsory regular school subject. The present study offers a critical analysis of one of the most popular Russian textbooks of RE. This critical analysis supports our earlier findings regarding the controversial character of RE in Russia. Despite the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Religious Education, Textbooks, Citizenship Education
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Zajda, Joseph; Smith, Ken – Educational Practice and Theory, 2015
The politicizing of Russian history textbooks and the imperatives of the Russian history standards to promote patriotism and rejection of Western models of history education signal a new ideological transformation in history education in the RF. Ideology, in this case the 'national ideology' promoted by President Putin (2014), and his followers,…
Descriptors: History, Textbooks, Teacher Surveys, History Instruction
Belikova, A. V. – Soviet Education, 1981
Describes the role of textbooks in the development of student political attitudes and activities in Siberian elementary and secondary education between 1917-1931. Textbooks were used to reinforce communist values, to increase knowledge about industrial development and collective agricultural methods, and to orient students toward socially useful…
Descriptors: Activism, Communism, Comparative Education, Educational History