Keyword: «social ideas»

At the beginning of XX century Azerbaijani intellectuals with democratic thinking op-posed traditional, i.e. obsolete religious education. They struggled for purification of religious upbringing and its integration into a new system. Such struggle first started in the middle of the XIX century. The author of the article has tried to summarize their ideas and reveal the key essence of such struggle and has referred to the opinions of the progressive and notable Azerbaijani intelligentsia who played a crucial role in the progressive, public and pedagogical life of that period. Among such intelligentsia, the most notable ones were A.Aghaoghlu, A.Huseynzada, M.A.Rasulzada, N.Narimanov, J.Mammadguluzada, O.F.Nemanzada and others.

The focus of this article is a discussion of the current state of students’ social ideas about children with disabilities in the context of moral education. The purpose of the article is to show the results of an empirical study of students’ social ideas about children with disabilities in the context of moral education. The study sample consisted of 77 students of Petrozavodsk State University, of which 11 were representatives of the Institute of Pedagogy and Psychology (DPE) (Department of Primary Education), the Institute of Pedagogy and Psychology (IPP) (Department of Design) – 15, and the Institute of Physical Education, Sports and Tourism (IPESaT) – 51; sample distribution by gender: girls – 48 (62%), boys – 29 (38%). Based on the theory of social ideas, students’ essays on the following topics: “One day in the life of a child with a disability” (31 essays), “Life on the planet “Special people”” (18 essays), “A letter from a child with a disability to an adult” (28 essays) were analyzed. Students could choose the form of their work: essay, poem, creative writing, story. Based on the data obtained, the following conclusions were made: the priorities for choosing topics for essays are different among representatives of the sample depending on gender, course of study and area of training.