In Yekaterinburg, a new textbook “Fundamentals of Orthodoxy” was created for the subject “Fundamentals of Religious Culture and Secular Ethics.” By September 1, the grant should be in schools. This was announced by the Metropolitan of Yekaterinburg and Verkhotursky Eugene.
“A serious team of authors is working on the textbook; the textbook is already being prepared for submission for examination,” said Vladyka Yevgeny. – Unlike the current one, it will be completed with a teacher’s book and a workbook. We hope that by the next academic year the textbook will be sent to schools for testing. “
The Metropolitan noted that the project is being implemented on behalf of the Minister of Education of the Russian Federation Sergei Kravtsov together with the publishing house of the same name. “The result is the upbringing of a socially responsible and religiously literate citizen at the age of a fourth-grader,” the head of the Yekaterinburg diocese explained, reports IA Ura.ru.
Gender stereotypes are still found in Russian school textbooks. Such results were shown by a study by UNESCO. The organization produced a report entitled “For All Means to All”, analyzing 30 education systems in Central and Eastern Europe, the Caucasus and Central Asia. It turned out that stereotypes relate to professions and activities. “Gender stereotypes are still encountered in primary school textbooks: women are portrayed as housewives and men as workers, soldiers and scientists,” the study said.