Peculiarities of religious and secular views on upbringing and moral development

Authors

  • Hieromonk Athanasius (Mikryukov) Nikolo-Ugreshskaya Orthodox Theological Seminary, 1, pl. Svyatitelya Nikolaya, Dzerzhinskiy, 140090, Russian Federation

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu28.2023.108

Abstract

This article analyzes two approaches to the educational process: postsecular, based on John Dewey’s educational project, and religious, based on Sergei Rachinsky’s peasant school project, which was based on the principle of Christian love. The need to analyze these approaches stems from the global challenges that call for a rethinking of the philosophical foundations of contemporary education, which until recently was understood as a “marketplace of educational services”, where all pedagogical approaches and practices are in demand, while the achievements of educational creativity are losing their most important and essential element — human personality development. The secularization tendency leads to haphazardness and randomness in organizing both the educational process and the implementation of pedagogical training, because the processes are in fact dependent on momentary and transient historical, political, cultural, and other circumstances. As a result, an important property of contemporary science is pointed out, which determines the one-sidedness of any purely secular approach to educational problems. This quality is manifested in the fact that contemporary science urgently needs such an integrated discipline as theology, which would unify the diverse achievements of secular science on the basis of traditional values.

Keywords:

education, upbringing, Christianity, love, John Dewey, Sergei Rachinsky, theology

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Published

2023-03-22

Issue

Vol. 5 No. 1 (2023)

Section

Theology and Education

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