I must say that public schools understand that they fail to keep pace with the times and are looking for new solutions. Their main strength is that they can give fundamental education in mathematics, physics and chemistry. I will clarify — to give it to those who really want to take it. The ability to prepare strong personnel for the military-industrial complex has not disappeared. Now programmers have been added to the list of occupations. Here we are developing very well even compared to the rest of the world. The skills of Soviet education are not outdated.
All schools — public, private, family and alternative — are actively searching for new ways of developing education in the XXI century. Unfortunately, this search is not going to bring immediate results as education is a very conservative thing and changes slowly.
In my opinion, in the near future, education will change in the following directions:
• The focus will be on the student, his needs and opportunities. The student who interacts with the world, not counteracts the world. Metadisciplinarity will become the main way of learning (hello, Anton Makarenko, Viktor Shatalov and Mikhail Shchetinin).
• Education will transcend the boundaries of the school, grade, and age. The whole world will become a school (Mikhail Shchetinin, Alexander Tubelsky).
• The main motivation for learning will be interest in the subject, not fear. Positive emotions will be the basis of learning. If a child comes home from school happy, then this is a good school (Shalva Amonashvili, Anton Makarenko, Alexander Tubelsky).
• Boring memorization and cramming will be replaced by effective memorization, a creative approach to solving problems, project work (Genrikh Altshuller, Viktor Shatalov).
• The main challenge for education in the 21st century will be the need to combine a strong scientific worldview with creative approaches and a pedagogy of uncertainty and spontaneity. This is a union between the Soviet scientific school, training, creativity and democratic structure of education, no matter how incompatible they may seem now.
P. S. Unfortunately, there are not too many books and research papers analyzing the experience of Soviet innovative teachers. This topic is just beginning to be explored. The facts I wrote about were largely taken from seminars and personal meetings, conversations with school principals, teachers and students as well as followers of innovative teachers. Here are a few books which are relevant to the topic and which I used in preparing this article.
Архитектура Школы будущего: гибкость, открытость и оригинальность
Амир Идиатулин
DOI 10.55140/2782–5817–2022–2-S1–40–47
Хотели бы вы учиться в Школе чародейства и волшебства Хогвартс? Кто из нас, посмотрев серию фильмов о Гарри Поттере, не был восхищен архитектурой и стилем замка? Образ Хогвартса крайне обаятельный, но с реальностью и будущим не соотносимый, считает основатель и генеральный директор бюро IND architects Амир Идиатулин. Эксперт поделился своим мнением, о чем должен помнить архитектор, проектируя Школу будущего, и почему типовые решения могут быть вредны.
Амир Идиатулин