T.G. Skorokhodova Oriental knowledge in the humanities education in Russia: Reflections of the university teacher

Abstract: The article presents the reflections by a university teacher about the problems of Oriental achievements’ integration into the Modern humanitarian education in Russia. The author sees the problem of teaching special humanities in a lag of course content from the latest developments of Russian Oriental Studies, which remain the property of scholars and orientalists. The author cites the examples from their own pedagogical practice of teaching sociological disciplines and shows the need for the integration of Oriental problems into the humanities courses, both a general and special cycle. In addition to deepening knowledge of the socio-cultural reality and understanding their own country, oriental knowledge contributes to overall enlightenment purposes, viz to overcome the negative stereotypes about other people, cultures and countries, to expand the horizons of thinking, to understand the Other, as well as to understand of the universal and the particular in the development of Russia.

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