DOI: 10.7256/2454-0676.2020.4.34344

Abstract: The subject of the research is the works of the outstanding Russian historian of education, corresponding member of the RAO E.G. Osovsky (1930-2004), devoted to the study of school, education and pedagogical thought of the Russian abroad. The article outlines the reasons for the scientist's choice of a new pedagogical topic at the turn of the 1980s and 1990s, identifies the research approaches and problem fields implemented by him, and offers an analysis of the most important works. The comprehensive analysis of the phenomenon of pedagogical emigration presented in the scientist's works opened up opportunities for subsequent generations of researchers to build a holistic picture of the formation and development of schools, education and pedagogical thought in foreign Russia. The authors present the main directions of the scientist's research, the characteristics of their influence on the development of modern historical and pedagogical science and its prospects, which determines the relevance of the article. The wide coverage of sources, the accounting of materials from the personal archive of the scientist, the involvement of works from inaccessible publications and the introduction of the entire complex of materials into scientific circulation determine the scientific novelty of the article. The implementation of such an approach, which is based on a complex combination of traditional methods of historical and pedagogical science and new methods of analysis (hermeneutical, contextual, microhistoric), provides the necessary interdisciplinarity and allows us to talk about the productivity of its application in the study of the heritage of outstanding Russian teachers.

DOI: 10.25136/2409-8736.2018.3.27130

Abstract: This article reviews the problem of perception and assessment of the process of school building in USSR by the Russian pedagogical émigré at the turn of 1920’s – 1930’s. Having set the goal of creating the Russian foreign school, pedagogues and leaders of the social-pedagogical movement took a close eye on what was happening to the school homeward, assessed it with critical objectivity, highlighting the positive changes and pointing at dangerous tendencies. These issues are the focus of attention in the articles of Sergius Hessen, N. F. Novozhilov, A. L. Bem and N. A. Hans in the émigré pedagogical periodicals. Using the principles of the traditional historical-pedagogical research, approaches of content analysis and case study, the author determine the methodology applied by Nicholas Hans for analyzing the Soviet educational policy and school system. The authors reveal the scholar’s position, according to which the characteristic to the entire history of national school antagonism between radical and autocratic traditions finds its continuation in the Soviet school,  that in turn, allows extrapolating the conclusions based on the development stages of prerevolutionary school towards new situation. N. A. Hans uses similar approach in preparation of works about the Soviet school policy, addressed to the English audience. For the first time the authors introduce into the scientific discourse a number of Russian and English language publications of N. A. Hans, a notable participant of the social-pedagogical process of Russian émigré community, but yet unfamiliar to Russian audience. Nicholas Hans was one of the few Russian émigré, who was able to integrate into the scientific educational space of the Great Britain and became a prominent pedagogue-comparativist.