Children"s world of Ushinsky and Western European educational literature. Dialogue of didactic cultures

The proposed book takes at the starting point of research Children"s World K.D. Ushinsky and unfolds a wide panorama of educational literature of the late XVIII - XIX centuries, “voices” the polyphonic dialogue of teachers and mentors, various schools, generations and countries. The authors explore how the most famous domestic textbooks for primary education were created in interaction with Western European educational literature.
First of all, we are talking about textbooks K.D. Ushinsky “Children"s World” and “Native Word”, about how these manuals were reflected by the creative contacts of Russia with teachers of other countries in the second half of the XIX - early XX centuries, which was accepted by Ushinsky in the works of German, Austrian and English authors, and what was rejected Or transformed by them.
The universal principles of the European elementary school appear in the variety of cultural options and in the faces of outstanding teachers, reflecting not only social and ethnocultural differences, but also personal positions and systems of priorities of the classics of education