Local lore and history education in the system of cultural studies training of a specialist
The author presents an outlook of the role of local lore and history studies in the formation of the educational potential of the region. From the cultural studies point of view the definition of local lore and history education is given, the significance of its development is proved and is considered as a value component of the cultural training of a specialist. The mutual influence of culture and education is a multi aspect dialectical process. The solution of the issues of local lore and history education, which is able to influence the life of a region, made the search of the approaches to building up a model of local lore and history education topical. The fact that education depends on the type of culture and transforms together with the changes in it, is taken into account, as well as the fact that education is an important condition of the efficient development of the society. The basic method of the study is the dialectical method of cognition of social systems. The history principle makes it possible to consider local lore and history studies as a social and cultural phenomenon and the local lore and history education in the system of interconnected and reason-consequence dependence of the phenomena of state and public life at different stages of the history of Russia. Modeling methods made it possible to create theoretical models, namely, of public (initiative) structural part of local lore and history studies and local lore and history education by implementing their presence correspondingly in the activity of TCLL and in setting up local lore and history education in different educational institutions. Hermeneutic method made it possible to more deeply understand the specificity of social and cultural local lore and history activity and local lore and history education, to interpret them as humanitarian activity. We use also comparative and historical, problem and topical, biographical methods, the method of observation and others.