Rural Schools in War Time, years 1941-1945 (on the example of Vozhgalskiy district of Kirov region)
The relevance of the study is determined by the high practical need for the formation of patriotic feelings of students, their civic identity on the basis of familiarization with the history of their native land and small homeland. On the eve of the 75th anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War, the importance of the material of the article in educational terms increases greatly. The aim of the study is to identify the characteristics of the life of rural schools in difficult wartime conditions, the specifics of the organization of the educational and educational processes in them, and to compare the characteristics of education with similar ones for modern educational organizations in the Kirov region (on the example of the Vozhgalsky district). The objectives of the study are: the collection of historical artifacts from the life of rural schools of the Kirov region in the period 1941-1945; analysis and interpretation of the collected archive content in a comparative version; drawing analogies and parallels with the characteristics of the development of a modern rural school and a scientific interpretation of the results obtained in the context of their application for the patriotic education of rural schoolchildren. The scientific novelty of the article’s material is determined by the fact that an attempt has been made to recreate a holistic view of the educational process of a rural school located in the home front relatively to the front, and on this basis highlights the trends in its development that exist in a transformed format in our time. Artifacts captured in the media as a part of the article receive scientific theoretical coverage and interpretation. The results of the study are determined by the creation of a comparative plan of some meaningful field for scientific understanding in the context of identifying different and similar signs of education in a rural school in a historical perspective.