Authors
- Seresova Uliana Igorevna Candidate of Political Sciences, Associate Professor
Annotation
Social Studies lessons at school differ from the other subjects as it doesn’t only shape personal attitudes towards political processes and institutes, but also analyze
their essence and content. The potential of the school course of social studies as an agent of political socialization is revealed in the article based on the results of an expert survey of schoolteachers of social studies. School as an agent of political socialization provides the transmission of all three components of political culture: knowledge, values and opinions. Social Studies lessons may be regarded as an agent of direct political socialization of schoolchildren. Unintended transmission of political norms due to the ‘hidden curriculum’ should be regarded as indirect political socialization. Both the potential and the difficulties of the teachers in developing political knowledge, values, and opinions in schoolchildren at social studies lessons are revealed in the article. The themes which transmit the theoretical knowledge of politics are marked as simple by the schoolteachers while the ones demanding personal reflection of emotions and opinions on politics, and critical thinking, on the contrary, are described as complicated. According to the empirical data, the potential of Social Studies school course in the formation of political values and attitudes is higher than in transmission of political knowledge. Both in-class and extracurricular activities can construct the patriotic feeling in schoolchildren. The theme “Political processes in the contemporary Russia” appears to be the most problematic topic of the political block of Social Studies lessons, as it presumes that the schoolchildren should form their own attitudes and estimations of the current political process. Extracurricular activities at school is majorly aimed at establishing the experience of conventional and conformal political participation. The contradictions between the examples from the textbooks and the experienced social reality are the main causes of difficulties
in schoolchildren, according to the schoolteachers.
How to link insert
Seresova, U. I. (2023). POLITICAL SOCIALIZATION AT SCHOOL LESSONS OF SOCIAL STUDIES Bulletin of the Moscow City Pedagogical University. Series "Pedagogy and Psychology", 2023, №3 (47), 68. https://doi.org/10.25688/2078-9238.2023.47.3.6
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