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Original article

 

Organization and development of research activities at the Mordovia State Pedagogical Institute in the 1960s — early 1970s

 

Antonova M. V., Laptun V. I., Osovsky O. E.

 

Abstraсt

Based on archival documents, many of which are being introduced into scientific use for the first time, the article examines the process of organization and development of research and methodological work of the teaching staff of the Mordovia State Pedagogical Institute in the 1960s and early 1970s. At the stage of the higher institution establishment, one of the key problems was the formation of a teaching staff capable of both carrying out educational work effectively and conducting fruitful scientific researches. The analysis of archival documents shows, by the mid-1960s, the leadership of the pedagogical institute largely managed to form a completely “combat-ready” scientific and pedagogical team and establish research activities, the most favorable conditions were created for improving the scientific qualifications of teachers. This is evidenced, in particular, by the annual reports of the Vice-rector for Academic and Scientific Work, as well as the minutes of meetings of the Council of the Institute. Gradually, student science began to develop at the institute: scientific circles were organized at the departments, the Student Scientific Society was formed, student scientific conferences were held annually. Thus, despite the difficulties, in general, the research work of the staff of the Mordovia State Pedagogical Institute, reflected in reports on science, proceeded in accordance with the chosen direction and its results were approved not only by the Council of the Institute, but also by the Ministry of Education of the RSFSR. Based on the results of the scientific activity of the teaching staff, scientific conferences were held, including at the interuniversity level, articles were published in leading Soviet journals, complex scientific topics were implemented, research results were published in interuniversity collections of scientific papers, candidate and doctoral dissertations were prepared.

 

Keywords: Mordovia State Pedagogical Institute, research activities, advanced training, scientific conference, student scientific society

 

Acknowledgements: the authors express their gratitude to the staff of the Central State Archives of the Republic of Mordovia for their assistance in the preparation of this article.

 

For citation: Antonova MV, Laptun VI, Osovsky OE. Organization and development of research activities at the Mordovia State Pedagogical Institute in the 1960s — early 1970s. Center and Periphery. 2023;18(3):25—33. EDN YDHLHG

 

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Information about the authors:

Marina V. Antonova, Rector of the Mordovia State Pedagogical University named after M. E. Evseviev (11a Studencheskaya Str., Saransk 430007, Russia), Candidate of Economical Sciences, Associate Professor, ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6087-9289, office@mordgpi.ru

Vladimir I. Laptun, Assistant Professor of Department of Pedagogics of the Mordovia State Pedagogical University named after M. E. Evseviev (11a Studencheskaya Str., Saransk 430007, Russia), Candidate of Historical Sciences, Associate Professor, ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4530-7658, vil60@rambler.ru

Oleg E. Osovsky, Principal Researcher of the Scientific Bureau of the Mordovia State Pedagogical University named after M. E. Evseviev (11a Studencheskaya Str., Saransk 430007, Russia), Doctor of Philological Sciences, Professor, ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9869-3233, osovskiy_oleg@mail.ru

 

Contribution of the authors:

Antonova M. V. — critical analysis and scientific editing of the text;

Laptun V. I.  — data collection and analysis of literature, writing the initial version of the article;

Osovsky O. E. — concept development, methodology development, analytical activity.

 

Conflict of interests: the authors declare no conflict of interests.

 

The authors have read and approved the final version of the manuscript.

 

The article was submitted 22.05.2023; approved after reviewing 13.06.2023; accepted for publication 19.06.2023.