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4.2. SOCIAL SPHERE
4.2.6.
PROGRAMME FOR EDUCATION IN THE HUMANITIES
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An international project has been elaborated
for the
promotion of education in the humanities, financed jointly
by the Nizhni Novgorod administration and the Soros
Foundation committee for education in the humanities. The
project consists in the following:
1. Principal directions of collaboration:
- modification of the subject matter of
education in the
humanities;
- preparation and publication of teaching
materials;
- staff training and retraining;
- improvement of the material and technical
base of
education.
2. In the sphere of education in the humanities:
- elaboration of a new system of education
in the humanities
at schools;
- development and introduction of a course
in the
fundamentals of human rights;
- research aimed at including elements of
ecology into all
humanities disciplines;
- translation and publication of textbooks
widely used in
world teaching practice, and dictionaries and teaching
materials on history, political science, and fundamentals
of
human rights;
- introduction of alternative textbooks
and curricula,
including of various complexity, in teaching practice at
schools;
- creation of an information database of
new teaching
technologies;
- creation of a computer database for information
networks
and programmes aimed at carrying out the teaching process.
3. In the sphere of economics education:
- development of consistent school curricula
on economics;
development of new integrated textbooks and syllabuses;
- development of a foreign language curriculum
with special
reference to the economic lexicon and terminology.
4. Staff training and retraining.
On the basis of the Nizhni Novgorod Oblast
Teacher
Retraining Institute:
- in the 1992-93 academic year, to organize
courses on
psychology, religious studies, economics, management,
political science, world history, fundamentals of human
rights, and ecological education.
- establishment of a seminar to be regularly
held on the
problems of education in the humanities;
- preparation of a package of documents
on evaluation of the
qualifications of managers in education;
- establishment of an exchange programme
for Russian
teachers and organization of teaching practice for foreign
teachers at experimental schools;
- provision of paid sabbaticals for teachers
developing a
new education system;
- provision of printing resources to publish
teaching
materials.
5. Project stages.
August-September 1992 - establishment of
working groups.
In the 1992-93 academic year the implementation
of the
programme in 10 specially selected schools will be started:
- Nizhni Novgorod: schools No. 13,53,91;
the pedagogical
specialized secondary school; the technical lyceum;
- Nizhni Novgorod oblast: the Iljinskaja
school of
Gorodetsky district, the Lindoskaja school of Borsk
district, school No. 38 in Dzerzhinsk; the lyceum in
Semjonov; and the teaching and research centre in Arzamas.
In the 1993-94 academic year, two districts
are taking part
in the experiment (the Sovietsky district of Nizhni Novgorod
and the Dzerzhinskij district in the oblast).
In 1994-95, the experiment will be implemented
throughout
the region.
Approximately 250 mln roubles will be necessary
for the
implementation of the programme at the initial stage in
the
1992-93 academic year.
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