The paradoxes of educational policy in Russia at the end of the 19th century: Journal of the meeting of the pedagogical council of the Novocherkassk gymnasium from February 9, 1883

Abstract. The article presents the first publication of the Journal of the meeting of the Pedagogical Council the Novocherkassk Men’s Grammar School from February 9, 1883. The document is of interest from the perspective of assessing the development of the educational system in the Russian Empire at the turn of the 19th–20th centuries and its correlation with processes of the national scale: “Jewish question”, some social problems and management trends. The content of journal provides a comprehensive overview of the work of such a self-governing body in secondary educational institutions as the Pedagogical Council, whose work reveals typical social trends in turn-of-the-century society: the decline of professional discipline, the growth of state control, and bureaucratization. The study of this source allows us to cover a range of issues of the inner life of a secondary educational institution at the end of the 19th century. We can see in these documents the growth of educational problems in the gymnasium, which were proposed to be solved by administrative methods. The study of the source puts the matter of the typicality of the problems solved by educational institutions in Russia at the turn of the centuries and the connection of these issues with the revolutionary events of subsequent times.

Keywords: secondary educational institutions, Novocherkassk men’s gymnasium, “Jewish question”, pedagogical council, upbringing at the gymnasium, journal of meetings of the pedagogical council.