An experiment plan has been approved to introduce the fundamentals of religious cultures and secular ethics in schools

The Government of the Russian Federation approved an action plan for testing the training course “Fundamentals of Religious Cultures and Secular Ethics” in 2009-2011.

The course includes the fundamentals of Orthodox, Islamic, Buddhist, Jewish cultures, the fundamentals of world religious cultures and secular ethics.

The experiment will cover 19 regions (and not 18, as mentioned earlier ): Kalmykia, Karachay-Cherkessia, Udmurtia, Chechnya, Chuvashia, Kamchatka, Krasnoyarsk and Stavropol territories, Vologda, Kaliningrad, Kostroma, Kurgan, Novosibirsk, Penza, Sverdlovsk, Tambov, Tver , Tomsk region, as well as the Jewish Autonomous Region.

The development of teaching aids is planned for the end of 2009 - February 2010, their replication and additional advanced training for course teachers for 2010-2011.

It is planned to monitor the progress of the experiment and make an annual report to the government on its results.

Sources

• The Government of the Russian Federation approved a plan for conducting an experiment on teaching the fundamentals of religion and secular ethics // Interfax-religion. 2009. November 5.