THE MAIN DIRECTIONS OF UPBRINGING IN EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS OF SECONDARY VOCATIONAL EDUCATION IN KARACHAY AND CIRCASSIA IN 1920s–30s

Abstract

The article notes that educational work in all educational institutions of Karachay and Cherkessia, including in the field of secondary professional level, was conducted during this period under the control of the state and had a pronounced ideological character. The work emphasizes that the main goal of education and training in colleges and technical schools was the formation of a young specialist devoted to the socialist Homeland, possessing a set of moral and ethical qualities characteristic of a real “builder of communism.” Those of the qualities that corresponded to such status were also cultivated, while others were forgotten. Taking into account the specifics of the multiethnic region, special attention was paid by the teaching staff of the vocational education system to the way to form mutual respectful and tolerant relations between representatives of different nations. The article presents techniques and methods that were actively used in the educational process, allowing to achieve the above goal. The presented material allows to conclude that this task was, in general, performed at a fairly high level by the collectives of secondary vocational education institutions in the region.