Problems of the Orthodox culture school teaching methods from the aspect of State-Church relations.

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2. Original titleПроблемы методики преподавания православной культуры в школе в аспекте государственно-церковных отношений.
3. Language term Russian
4. lemma author Saprykin, Dmitry
5. lemma category Education, Science and Orthodoxy
6. Publication date 2015
7. lemma work Метлик Игорь [Author]. Problems of the Orthodox culture school teaching methods from the aspect of State-Church relations.
8. lemma manifestations Вестник Православного Свято-Тихоновского гуманитарного университета. Серия 4: Педагогика. Психология.
9. Keywords Orthodox culture course - Methodological issues - religious education
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    1. The author explored the process of developing methodology for teaching Orthodox culture in public schools as a field of the state and Orthodox Church joint competence, outlined its stages and the principal methodological lines, as well as the problems caused by the dynamics of state-church relations in education sphere and by sociocultural evolution of the society in the post-Soviet period.

       The author proves that the originally selected and coordinated content and methodology of teaching Orthodox culture in public schools (in the Concept of 2007) were subjected to misrepresentation and erosion in practical implementation when introducing the subject. "This was not an accidental initiative; many attempts were subsequently made to further change the content of teaching Orthodox culture closer to 'comparative religious studies' by including additional topics on other religions and religious cultures in it."

       "Linking" subjects of religious cultures and ethics into an "integrated course" has led to negative consequences in teachers’ training, the author believes. The teachers were trained on a mass scale of “Basics of religious cultures and secular ethics", which meant a deliberately lowered level of training comparing as if the teacher was trained to teach one subject. A negative role played also the reduction of the Orthodox culture course volume to 34 hours.

       A new stage in the development of the Orthodox culture teaching methods will begin when a decision is gained to expand the teaching of Orthodox culture as an independent subject for at least grades 2-10, the author believes. Then it will be necessary to maintain the Orthodox culture teaching basic methodological principles implemented in the state and Church joint competence sphere, oriented to systematic study by schoolchildren (due to their family choice) of the moral principles, historical and cultural traditions of Orthodox Christianity , to introduction to Orthodox Christian spiritual and moral values, providing education on their basis.