On the theoretical and methodological foundations of the study of secular and confessional education

Abstract

The article analyzes the qualitative and temporal configuration of secular and confessional education with the allocation of positive aspects and critical points. According to the authors, a comparative analysis of the theoretical and methodological foundations of the educational models under consideration acts as a platform for understanding the pedagogical experience as a whole, and provides for the selection of a wide variety of options analyzed in close relationship with the genesis of culture, science, and social thought. Carrying out a study of the particular specifics of the functioning of models of secular and confessional education implemented in various world educational practices, the authors came to the conclusion that there is a kind of “coordinate system” that determines the nature of existing models. This coordinate system includes the historical specifics of the existing relationships between state institutions and religious associations; the peculiarities of national and cultural traditions of modern European countries and Kazakhstan; the role and place of religious values in the life of the people; the nature of legal regulation in the field of educational practices of secular and religious institutions.

Keywords: education, secular model of education, confessional model of education, dialogue of cultures.