Музыкальное искусство и образование (Mar 2021)
Spiritual and Moral Upbringing Children in the Process of Musical and Theatrical Activities in Church Sunday School
Abstract
In this article, the spiritual and moral upbringing and education in the Sunday schools of the Russian Orthodox Church is presented in a historical and cultural context. The authors believe that the main goal of modern Sunday schools in Russia is to revive the national tradition of missionary preaching the Gospel that is poorly studied in modern pedagogical science. This tradition determines the content and forms of educational work, including those related to art. To confirm their ideas, the authors analyze the main historical stages of the formation and development of church (parish) schools, which are the prototype of the modern Sunday schools of the Russian Orthodox Church. The history of the spiritual and moral formation of a child’s personality in such schools testifies to the need to regulate the substantive foundations of the educational process, which takes place in the space of traditions and attitudes of the Christian church, but inevitably includes the problems of the surrounding worldly reality and its cultural component. Based on the mission goal of the modern Church Sunday school, declared in the official guidelines of the Russian Orthodox Church, the authors proposed a culturological approach to the spiritual and moral upbringing and education by means of musical and theatrical activities. By its methodological nature this approach is integrative since it incorporates both secular and religious meanings. The authors took the theory of music-oriented polyartistic approach from the arsenal of secular pedagogy of music education. The dominant content of the educational process in the Orthodox Sunday school, that is associated with the preservation of the high Evangelic meaning of the spiritual and moral education of the younger generation, is drawn from the pedagogy of the religious direction. The article describes the experience of integrating music and theater arts in order to solve the problems of spiritual and moral education in the educational process of the modern Church Sunday schools of Rybinsk Diocese.
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