Civilizational, Spiritual and Moral Foundations of Russian Education: A Strategy for Restoring Sovereign Potentials

The article examines the methodological, civilizational and anthropological foundations for shaping a sovereign model of Russian education. Emphasis is placed on the necessity of rejecting borrowed Western educational approaches that are incompatible with Russia’s spiritual and cultural tradition. As an alternative, the author proposes a return to traditional spiritual and moral values and to a national pedagogical model grounded in the principles of Orthodox anthropology, the idea of personal transformation, and collective education.

The central idea is that education should be understood as a mechanism of civilizational reproduction, inseparable from the transmission of identity and values. Particular attention is devoted to the concepts of good and evil as formative categories within the framework of educational practice. It is emphasized that a sovereign educational system is not merely a technological institution, but an axiologically protected structure capable of ensuring the historical and spiritual continuity of civilization.

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