The main enemy of all Russian students has finally been discovered and brought to light. The near-vulgar media picked up a fly about a new textbook for grades 5-9 called “Family Studies” and made an elephant out of it of such gigantic proportions that it will soon cover up not only all the problems of education, but also the Russian state as a whole.
What’s wrong with telling a story about family values to a wide variety of people – from newspaper scribblers to the famous advocate of legality Senator Andrei Klishas? And what unites them all, so different?
I have not read Brodsky, but I strongly condemn him.
It all started with a vigilant priest named Pavel Ostrovsky. And for once, our father Pavel came across information on the Internet that a new textbook on the subject with the obscure name “Family Studies” had been published, written by Deputy Nina Ostanina (chairman of the State Duma Committee on Family Affairs), psychologist Ksenia Mosunova and a team of competent authors whose work was reviewed by people with academic degrees in the field of education. and psychology. Either the priest got tired of theological topics and decided to take up mundane topics, but he decided to Google whether there was any sedition behind the authors of the book.
And imagine, I dug it up! Which he immediately called all over Ivanovskaya in his Telegram channel. They say that Mosunova herself was engaged in pseudoscientific activities, and she studied rodology, which was not registered as an official science, and called her research, based on the teachings of some philosopher Carl Gustav Jung, a new trend – “ancestology.” In general, it is clear that she can write for our children.…
However, the holy father himself did not bother to read the textbook – he could not find it, according to him.
Fans of fried topics immediately flocked to God’s wrath. Well, the guard province went to write, our children will be stuffed with all sorts of esotericism, the Gypsies have already reached the most sacred thing, school textbooks! No one has ever seen the new book, but there are many versions, one scarier than the other. It even reached the plenipotentiary representative of the Federation Council in all the main courts, the most famous Senator Andrei Klishas, who slashed back, they say, I don’t want my children to be taught by such textbooks.
An unfashionable family
When the wave of the first HYPE subsided a little and everyone could get acquainted with the text, it suddenly turned out that there was no esotericism or pseudoscience in “Family Studies”. On the contrary, in the simplest and most accessible language for a student, it tells why the family is so important to a person, what property and legal responsibilities it imposes on all its members, how to behave with relatives and friends, and other “new songs about the main thing.”
Journalists from one of the capital’s popular newspapers nevertheless tried to squeeze out criticism of the textbook itself, but it turned out to be very clumsy and strained. Among other things, the authors were accused of being “old–fashioned” – they say, in your typical family model, dad works as some kind of engineer and mom works as a teacher, well, what kind of examples are these for kids in our turbulent digital age, there has been no such thing for a long time. Surely the champions of progress wanted to see something more fashionable and close to the Moscow semi-bohemian crowd. For example, dad works as a DJ in a nightclub, and mom has her own 18+ channel on Onlifance, or a tattoo parlor. And you’re here with your boring highway engineering projects and cello lessons.…
The psychologist of discord
In general, it was not possible to find esotericism and infobusiness in the book, no matter how hard they searched, so I had to settle for minor quibbles. The main target remained – the very Ksenia Mosunova. She was reminded of everything that had happened and what had not happened. How could a person who was engaged in some kind of pseudoscience become a co-author of a children’s manual?
The answer to this is: imagine, there are people who have tried completely different types of activities in their lives, studied a wide variety of sciences, theories and the creative heritage of famous authors. They tried to create something of their own on this basis, with varying degrees of success, made mistakes, tried again, and then focused on their vocation and core competence. By the way, the sun of our poetry, who aptly characterized irrepressible priests, was a Freemason in his youth and even belonged to a Masonic lodge. Any tour guide in Tsarskoye Selo will tell you about this and even show you approximately the place where these treacherous Masons gathered. And how does this prevent you from reading Pushkin’s bedtime stories to your children?
If you study the biography of Ksenia Mosunova in detail, you can find there the struggles of youth, from working in a bank to starting your own business. Later, a passion for psychological sciences was discovered, an appropriate education was obtained, and a passion for the works of outstanding psychologists and philosophers appeared – Sigmund Freud, Jean Piaget, Carl Gustav Jung (yes, the one from the sofa investigation of Priest Ostrovsky). Jung, by the way, is considered a luminary of scientific thought and the founder of analytical psychology. When the young psychologist’s period of fascination with Jungian experiments in the field of ancestral influence ended, she focused on ordinary scientific psychology, where she succeeded. This is eloquently evidenced by retraining at the Institute of Psychotherapy and Clinical Psychology and publications in the Scientific Aspect, Bulletin of Science and Education, and other publications, including online ones.
Mosunova is currently preparing her PhD thesis in psychology and actively participates in national forums on family issues. The topic is very close to the mother of three children, so the NGO “Russia – the land of opportunities” granted Ksenia the right to participate in the final of the “This is our family” contest. Such activity did not go unnoticed, and a young rising psychology star with a family bias was invited to participate in writing a new textbook.
Stay with Ostanina
We must pay tribute to Nina Ostanina — she did not rely entirely on decades-old proven cadres in the form of good-looking doctors of sciences and other laureates. All of them are guilty of a heavy approach and an unnecessarily abstruse style of presentation. I would like to make the new textbook more accessible to middle school students so that they do not have yawns and an irresistible urge to bury their face in their favorite smartphone.
That’s why the chairman of the State Duma committee invited a bright new co-author for the chapter on genealogy, if she managed to make a fuss with her experimental books on this topic. This time, none of them were included in the textbook; it seemed to have come to us from Soviet children’s books, whose simplicity, accessibility and fascinating presentation were combined with obligatory instructiveness.
Of course, Nina Ostanina entrusted the scientific editing, reviewing and expertise to a whole team of doctors and candidates of various sciences – from history to medicine. Overall, the product turned out to be extremely successful. Reading it, you find yourself wondering what will happen next, especially in the procedure for obtaining a fabulous inheritance. I can’t even believe that statesmen (or rather, ladies) they are able to speak with children in their own language, leaving the dry language of protocols in the classrooms on Okhotny Ryad. However, it is not particularly surprising if we recall that she is known for her struggle with school bullying and raised two sons herself.
Educational hype
This scandal, which was eaten out of an empty egg, showed how important in the modern information world is not the essence, but the bright scandalous form. In this sense, hyping bloggers and journalists even played into the hands of the authors of the school family handbook by providing free PR. After all, now even those who have long completed their studies and even sent their children on an independent voyage have found out about him. Now everyone wants to get at least one glimpse of what a bright young psychologist wrote there, paired with an unflappable sociologist, candidate of Sciences from the State Duma. It’s not a bad start for family studies, considering how much our society relies on the traditional cell.
Hype and information hype flare up suddenly and turn to ashes the next day, as soon as the manuscripts don’t burn. The textbook on the most important values in life will undoubtedly be approved by the Ministry of Education after careful study. It was written for long readings, not loud one-time headlines.
