1. Editors' Introduction.
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N., H. J. and S., B. B.
- Abstract
The papers on the methodology of Soviet pedagogical studies chosen for this issue of Soviet Education were written for presentation at the First Scientific Conference of Pedagogical Scholars of Socialist Countries, held in Moscow in August 1971. Joining Soviet representatives at the Conference were guests from East European socialist countries, Cuba, and Mongolia. The Conference, without precedent in its purpose and in the international scope of its representation, was convened to identify and examine certain pedagogical problems whose solutions are urgent priorities for educational development in the socialist nations. In late 1973, fifty-two of the Conference papers were published in Russian in a volume entitled Problems of Socialist Pedagogy.* The book was compiled in three sections. The first, from which this issue of Soviet Education has been selected, contains twenty papers on "the general methodological problems of pedagogy, concrete aspects of the methodology of pedagogical research, the interaction of pedagogy with the related disciplines of sociology, psychology, and cybernetics, and the role and significance of interdisciplinary research." In the second section are fourteen papers dealing with "the problematics of the modernization and improvement of education under the given conditions of the scientific-technological revolution and the new requirements for the content of education and instruction. .." The third comprises eighteen papers on "school-teaching and upbringing: the tasks of improving the teaching process, questions of programmed instruction, problems of moral and aesthetic upbringing, the interdependence of the family and the school in raising the younger generation, and others" (Problemy sotsialisticheskoi pedagogiki, pp. 9-10). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 1974
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