Edutainment for work and for fun. How education becomes greatest entertainment
The article deals with questions related to the modern tendency in Russian education - edutainment. Great attention is given to defining the term “edutainment”, history of its appearance and development. Edutainment can be treated, the author states, as a new way of obtaining new knowledge, and its main goal lies not in comprehensive guidance to some given branch of science, but rather in developing interest and stimulating self-conducted research of some area of knowledge.