Sergey N. Korotkikh

Ensuring social partnership between educational institutions and traditional religious organizations in the Russian Federation

Abstract. The article is addressed primarily to heads and deputy heads of educational organizations, class teachers, curators of student groups, courses, specialists responsible for organizing the interaction of educational organizations with their social partners, extracurricular and project activities. The article attempts to justify, from the point of view of the state policy of the Russian Federation in the field of education, the need for interaction between educational institutions and traditional Russian religious organizations. Practical recommendations are given to state and municipal educational organizations on creating the conditions necessary for organizing an effective social partnership between them and representatives of traditional religions of Russia, firstly Christianity in the form of Orthodoxy which is the value-semantic, ethical and esthetical base of the great Russian culture and culture-forming religion for state-forming Russian nation. Historically it has created the conditions of appearing and existing Russian state-civilization providing a possibility of saving and developing many folks, cultures and religions in its borders consolidating the idea of common virtue and the same Russian civil identity. Russian Orthodox Church has expressed itself as a reliable and active partner for the state system of education in the Russian Federation.
Additionally the main principles of interaction between educational and traditional religious organizations and approaches to its organization are determined, directions and forms of joint activity are proposed. Attention is paid to the specifics of traditional Russian religious organizations and the peculiarities of the implementation of their educational pedagogical potential.

Keywords: traditional Russian religions, social partnership, church-school partnership, traditional Russian spiritual and moral values, nurturing.