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Domansky V.A. I.S. TURGENEV IN A MODERN SCHOOL. Education & Pedagogy Journal. 2021;1(1):87-103. DOI:

Introduction. The article’s relevance is determined by the need to find new ways to study Russian classics in a modern school setting. As studies show, students’ quality of classics perception decreases every year, explained by socio-cultural conditions and methodological aspects. This problem requires special attention in connection with the past and upcoming 200th anniversaries of the most significant canonical writers: I.A. Goncharov, M.Yu. Lermontov, I.S. Turgenev, A.A. Fet, N.A. Nekrasov, A.N. Ostrovsky, F.M. Dostoevsky, L.N. Tolstoy. The author believes that literary anniversaries are a good incentive to revive the most influential classical literature and include students in their country’s cultural life. And the literature teacher might benefit from knowing the anniversaries mentioned above and whether there are any events dedicated to these anniversaries. Teachers should also contribute to a philological environment in the school and continuously improve literary and methodological competence. The study is based on the biography and works by Turgenev, whose 200th anniversary was widely celebrated in 2018. We want to share the experience of teaching the creative heritage of an outstanding Russian writer in a modern school; we identified the difficulties that literature teachers face and outlined productive ways to overcome psychological and pedagogical contradictions in the theory and practice of literary education, which happens primarily due to the gap between the scientific and pedagogical studies of Turgenev’s works. Materials and methods. The study hypothetically formulated the problem, which was confirmed during the analysis of scientific and methodological works and while evaluating students’ residual knowledge. Results and discussion. Stereotypes of students’ perception of the writer’s personality and his creative work are revealed. Productive ways and forms of acquaintance with the author’s personality, new genres of creating a biographical sketch are considered. Particular attention is paid to Turgenev’s concept of nature and love, their aesthetic and philosophical essence. New methods of enhancing the reading activity are proposed, particularly methods to create intertextuality (based on the appeal to the landscapes by the artists from the Barbizon school). The ways of acquainting students with the writer’s manor texts in the context of the Russian manor culture are presented. Specific recommendations are given to include the “Home of the Gentry” novel in the 10th-grade literature class. New approaches to the study of the “Fathers and Sons” novel are revealed, the comparison teaching method of the television series based on the writer’s work “Bazarov’s Mistake” by Avdotya Smirnova is proposed. Conclusion. To actualize the students’ perception of Turgenev’s novel, a model of a lesson dialogue is developed with the involvement of works of modern Literature (Vera Tchaikovskaya’s remake “New under the Sun”). In general, the study showed that it is possible to teach further methodological improvement of Turgenev’s creative work at school by relying on established traditions and using new forms and methods of the reading activity organization, and by increasing the philological competence of the literature teacher.

Keywords: updating the Russian classical Literature, I.S. Turgenev in the modern school, traditions and innovation, stereotypes of the writer’s world perception, knowledge evaluation, Turgenev’s concept of nature and love, manor texts, methods of reading activity enhancement, methods to create intertextuality, intermodality in a literature class

Domansky V.A., Mironova N.A., Popova N.A. THE DIGITAL ENVIRONMENT IN THE FIELD OF TEACHING CLASSIC RUSSIAN LITERATURE. Education & Pedagogy Journal. 2023;1(5):5-24. DOI:

The works of the Russian classics form the basis for teaching literature in schools and universities. One of the most important methodological skills that a master’s student of a pedagogical university is the search for techniques and technologies for teaching classic Russian literature for later professional activity. The following research methods are presented: Interviewing master’s students studying at a pedagogical university, content analysis, qualitative and quantitative generalization of the obtained results, prediction of the main directions of work at the stage of identification, design, and control of experiments. The research was conducted among the master’s students in the 2nd year of the Institute of Philology of Moscow State Pedagogical University (Russian Federation). A total of 45 students participated in the experimental part from September 2019 to February 2020. The study results were also discussed in the advanced training courses for teachers at the St. Petersburg Institute of Business and Innovation. The necessity of using digital technologies and organizing a dialog with contemporary literature in studying classic Russian literature is empirically demonstrated. As a result, a classification of digital technologies was created, and the main areas of work related to the inclusion of modern literature in studying Russian classics were identified.

Keywords: Russian classics, dialog, readers, literary education, teaching methods and technologies, professional education, digital content, contemporary literature

Domansky V.A. Literature as a School Subject in Light of the Traditions of Philological Scholarship. Education & Pedagogy Journal. 2026;3(19):5-21. DOI:

Literature as a school subject is included in the Philology subject area. It constitutes its conceptual and substantive foundation, as reflected in the current Federal State Educational Standards for Basic General Education and Secondary (Complete) General Education. The relationship between literature and philology has been interpreted differently at different stages in the history of literature education in Russia. Thus, from the late eighteenth century onward, the concept of “philology” was replaced by the concept of slovesnost’ (verbal arts). From the second half of the nineteenth century, the concept of slovesnost’ began to be displaced from scholarly usage and replaced by the terms “philology,” “literature,” and “linguistics.” Likhachev offered the most comprehensive definition of philology, calling it the highest form of education in the humanities. The author argues for the fundamental role of literature in humanities education – worldview-shaping, moral, aesthetic, and cultural – a role that is insufficiently reflected in the current Federal State Educational Standards, and considers literature’s synthesizing role in the school curriculum and the meta-subject nature of philology. The meta-subject nature of Literature as a school subject presupposes the use of key literary and cultural images, codes, concepts, and ideas in the educational process. Through them, a living dialogue within culture is organized, one that addresses students’ hearts and minds and establishes connections between the present and other historical periods, cultures, and their characters. Particular attention in the study is given to the cultural and educational environment, which is created not only by an educational institution but also by the online environment, formed by various websites and blogs, that extends the boundaries of the contemporary lesson and enables dialogic communication between teachers and students beyond the classroom. Literary classics occupy a special place in philological education, since reading them offers multiple possibilities for interpretation and understanding. Such reading entails reflection on perennial, existential questions, even when these multivalent subtexts are not immediately recognized or seem self-evident to every reader. The article examines the life of classical works in the “great time” and the organization of dialogue within culture and across cultures. The article’s main conclusion is that, from the standpoint of contemporary philological scholarship, literature education entails educating a competent reader, cultivating aesthetic taste, developing creative abilities and a culture grounded in the humanities, as well as introducing students, through literary works, to the world of culture and fostering a culturally developed personality. For Likhachev, philology does not lead us away from life itself; it always reflects its deeper essence, constitutes the self-consciousness of culture, and shapes models of speech, intellectual, and social behavior.

Keywords: Literature as a school subject, philological scholarship, slovesnost’ (verbal arts), historical overview, functions of the school literature course, cultural and educational environment, the role of the classics in philological education