Fairy Tale - Lies, not a lesson

Tens of thousands of people signed petitions for a revision of the federal list of school textbooks for the 2014–2015 academic year. On the Change.org website, signatures are collected under nine appeals on this topic. The Ministry of Education and Science did not include more than 130 books in the list. It did not include, in particular, the benefits of Lyudmila Peterson and Leonid Zankov popular in the professional community.

In her negative review of the Peterson in mathematics textbook for the first grade, expert RAO Lyubov Ulyakhina said that the manual “does not contribute to the development of ethical feelings, goodwill and emotional and moral responsiveness” and the formation of patriotism. "The heroes of the works of J. Rodari, S. Perrault, the brothers Grimm, A. Lindgren are unlikely to be called up to educate a sense of patriotism and pride in his country and the people," Ulyakhina believes.

“It is strange when the expert claims that eggplants are unknown to children, and in the pictures they should look at characters only from domestic works and mathematics to teach Russia in the symbols of Russia. This distorts the concept of patriotism to a caricature phenomenon,” Alexei Obukhov said the head of the psychology of the Moscow State Pedagogical University.

“At the next meeting of the Public Council at the Ministry of Education and Science, I, as a co -chairman, will definitely raise this topic and hope that the list of textbooks will be able to adjust,” Yevgeny Yamburg, director of the Center for Education No. 109, told new news. “It is funny about patriotism in the mathematics textbook.”

On March 13, Izvestia reported that the Ministry of Education and Science prepared an order to approve the federal list of textbooks for the 2014-15 academic year. The list includes less than 1.5 thousand textbooks. Previously, the list of recommended textbooks totaled over 3 thousand publications. However, after several checks in the department, they decided to reduce the list by almost double. In addition, educational institutions will now be able to choose textbooks only within the framework of the approved list. Previously, there was no such restriction.

In January, President Vladimir Putin, at a meeting with the developers of the concept of a new training complex on domestic history, said that before the start of the new school year, all exam materials, including issues of the exam, should be formed on the basis of a new concept on the history of Russia .

"Now, on the basis of the concept, it is necessary to begin the preparation of new history textbooks for all classes. It is obvious that time will pass before their appearance in schools, and we need to provide for the transition period," Putin said.

“The creation of a new textbook will take at least 1.5-2 years, but during this period the concept will be applied in schools,” the head of the Ministry of Education and Science Livanov assured the president. According to him, in the current and next academic years, advanced training will be organized for all history teachers, this is more than 60 thousand people.

In September, in the process of discussing the new concept, the State Duma speaker Sergei Naryshkin said that Russian schoolchildren at the course of a single textbook will complete the study of the recent history of 2012 and the election of Putin by the president without mentioning that this is his third term. The publication is not mentioned about the protest rallies in 2011-2012, and the word "opposition" is found only in the context of the description of the reforms of Alexander I.