SSTU takes part in Major Interregional Conference in Moscow
On 28 January, as part of the 34th International Christmas Educational Readings “Enlightenment and Morality: Personality Formation and the Challenges of Our Time”, an interregional scientific and practical conference entitled “Spiritual and Moral Education in Higher Education” was held in the Hall of Church Councils of the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour in Moscow.
Yuri Gagarin State Technical University of Saratov was represented by Vice-Rector for International Relations Tatyana Kasaeva.
The conference was organised by the Council for Interaction between the Russian Orthodox Church and Higher and Secondary Professional Education Institutions in the Field of Spiritual and Moral Education, the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation and the International Public Organisation “World Russian People’s Council”.
Presentations were given by Metropolitan Evgeny of Yekaterinburg and Verkhoturye, Deputy Minister of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation, Ph.D. of Social Sciences Olga Petrova, Chairman of the Synodal Department for Youth Affairs, Doctor of Theology Bishop Seraphim of Istrinsky, Rector of the Russian Orthodox University of St. John the Theologian Alexander Shchipkov, as well as representatives of Russian universities.
A special discussion was sparked by the report “Educational Paradigm and the Image of Russia’s Future” by Alexander Dugin, Head of the Ivan Ilyin Higher School of Politics Educational and Research Centre at the Russian State University for the Humanities, Doctor of Pedagogical Sciences, Doctor of Social Sciences.
Conference participants discussed the prospects for the Council's activities on cooperation between the Russian Orthodox Church and universities in the field of spiritual and moral education, issues of the sovereignty of domestic higher education, the formation of students' worldviews based on traditional values, and other aspects of church-state partnership in education and science, as well as regional experience of interaction between the church and universities at the current stage.
