«Это все, мое, родное»: край и его история в школьных краеведческих пособиях 1960-1980-х годов

Детские чтения. 2025. Т. 27. № 1. С. 178–205.

Stepanov B., Kostenko S.

Kraevedenie (local studies), as a practice of local knowledge production, hasbeen unevenly researched. To address the lack of research on school-basedlocal studies, the authors turn to a comparative analysis of a corpus of localstudies manuals for secondary schools published between the 1960s and1980s. The analysis begins by examining the relationship between the reha-bilitation of local studies in the post-war period and the transformations inschool education. Combining qualitative and quantitative research methods,the authors characterize the formation of the corpus of local history teachingaids and investigate how narratives about the region and its history are con-structed. Relying on the image of a great country formed by Soviet schoolcartography, local history textbooks of this period develop the discourse of a‘small homeland’, emphasising the role of the region attachment in citizens’emotional belonging. Unlike their pre-revolutionary and early Soviet coun-terparts, these manuals focuses primarily on the historical narrative of theregion. This narrative makes relies minimally on the discourse of heritageand concentrates not on antiquity but on heroic modernity. These manualsare also poorly embedded in the system of local history institutions andpractices and equipped with references to opportunities for active learningof local material and interaction with the environment.

Keywords: учебные пособия, region, textbooks, современность, позднесоветский период, late soviet period, modernity, краеведение, средняя школа, secondary school, local studies, наследие, historical narrative, исторический нарратив, heritage, Image of region, textbook studies, Исследование учебников, образ края

Publication based on the results of: Genealogies of “algorithmic rationality” in the late USSR: from cybernetic utopia to information society (2022)