HR provision of secondary schools in Western Siberia in 1930s (historical and pedagogical aspects)

The article demonstrates that in the 1930s thetheorists of popular schooling offered a holistic approach to the content of schooling including selection and systematization of theteaching material concerning the disciplines of sciences and humanities with the dialectical method, accounting age, gender and individualpeculiarities and interests of high school students, developing their power of apprehension and creative potential, correlation of educationalprinciples. The author formulates and classifies requirements for the teaching staff capable of introducing the above-listed principlesin the educational system such as: motivation of the pedagogical activities, teachers training, rational organization of the educationalprocess, participation in many-sided public activities, mastering pedagogical skills. The research shows that at the beginning ofthe analyzed period the comprehensive schools of the West-Siberian Territory did not have enough skilled teachers possessing propertechniques and methodology of realization of the new educational approach. Therefore, in the course of the whole period examined thepopular schooling authorities struggled systematically with the teacher shortage that was more considerable in Western Siberia than inCentral Russia; conducted various activities in their advanced training: regional and inter-regional practical courses and conferencestraining elementary school teachers (two-month, three-month, five-month, two-year, three-year; full-time and evening classes), groupand individual consultations and cluster conferences; extended the popular schooling and higher pedagogical education system; putskilled teachers in charge of young specialists to help them with planning performance of tasks set at the courses as well as with organizingthe educational process. It is established that the above-listed measures in teachers training and advanced training enabled to givehelp to teachers in their work with new curriculums and textbooks, to obtain the valuable material for the methodological work concerningthe optimal organization of the educational process in comprehensive schools, to master methodology and technology of realizationof the holistic approach in education. The article reveals shortcomings in teachers training that made difficulties for improvement oftheir general and professional skills. It is established that in some schools in Western Siberia there were teachers who sought to realizethe new principles in the educational process in comprehensive schools. The article demonstrates the specific character of human resourcesof secondary schools in Western Siberia in the 1930s. It is noted that the solution of the problems that underlay definitions of thetechniques of teachers training, advances training and professional development for realization of the holistic approach in the 1930s isalso an urgent problem for modern teaching practice.

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