Duma deputies insist on a single history textbook – BBC Russian

Duma deputies insist on a single history textbook – BBC Russian

• October 9, 2014

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Irina Spring says that Russian schoolchildren should be one history book

The State Duma introduced a bill on common textbooks on history, literature and Russian language. Earlier, the Ministry of Education has rejected the idea to introduce in schools nationwide history textbook.

The bill put forward to Thursday a group of deputies from the “United Russia”, headed by Irina Spring, it is proposed to introduce “single line of text books” – that is, one for each year of training – in subjects “History”, “Russian” and “Literature”.

These textbooks, according to deputies, will have to select from the submitted projects committee of representatives from the Ministry of Education and Russian experts.

According to the authors of the project, the current diversity of textbooks in Russian schools is contrary to the Constitution and the law “On Education in the Russian Federation,” which declared “the unity of the educational space” of the country.

“It is obvious that the apparent variability of textbooks for one academic subject, neither the student nor his parents nor teachers actually selects textbooks. always have the student textbook, with uneven with their peers, which is not part of the total, and the fragmented education. And, therefore, the variability is inconsistent with the Constitution of the Russian Federation, as it does not provide the unified state policy in the field of education. Moreover, social discrimination is formed when a third party is determined unequal treatment in the determination of the adequacy of the level and quality of education for the individual child, different from his peers “- worried MPs in the explanatory memorandum to the draft.

to back up their arguments link on the sayings of President Putin, the sponsors have come to the conclusion that the common textbooks will be “a measure of national security, aimed at preserving the historically established state unity, traditions, culture and language, historical identity, the continuity of generations”.

” In children, the citizens of the Russian Federation may be a common history textbook, a common Russian language textbook and a general textbook of Russian literature. We have one country, we have the same language, we have the same culture, we have common traditions and must be ensured the continuity of generations “- quoted by Interfax presentation by Irina Spring to reporters.

standard rather than a tutorial

President Putin in early 2013 ordered the government to develop the concept of a standard textbook on the history of Russian secondary school, but in August, the Minister of Education Dmitry Livanov said that a single textbook still will not.

“We have a common history textbook, most likely, will not. We will have a single historical and cultural standard, on the basis of which will be developed by the history books. This does not mean that there will be only one textbook, “- quoted Livanov agency.

Contact Irina Spring Thursday bbcrussian.com failed.

Putin in a speech in early 2013 said that the textbook with a single concept would show students “the chronology of events and a formal assessment”.

The first draft of the historical and cultural standard for the school textbook was approved by the Russian Historical Society and submitted for public discussion at the beginning of July of the same year.

According to the project, a section devoted to Russia’s recent history includes the period from 1991 to 2012 – Member of the working group agreed that the Government of President Vladimir Putin should be present in the book. Already June 1 2014 Putin instructed to supplement the concept of a new textbook information “about the role of the Crimea and Sevastopol in the fate of the Russian Empire, the Soviet Union and modern Russia”.

It was assumed that the first versions of the textbook will prepare for the new academic year 2014-2015.

The idea of ​​developing a common history textbook in Russia is a lot of debate that many historians have noted that an objective description of the events of the last time – it is almost impossible.

“The closer to the present day, the more classified documents , respectively, the lower level of objectivity of the historian, “- said the BBC BBC Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor Andrei Zubov MGIMO.