Everything in order to protect children from drug addiction, alcoholism and suicide.
The curriculum in schools is being reshaped and shaken up, and this process is unlikely to ever stop. However, this is probably correct: life is changing, and we must be ready for these changes.
The latest initiative in this regard came from Zurab Kekelidze, Director General of the Federal Medical Research Center for Psychiatry and Narcology named after V.I. V.P.Serbsky. He offered – although no, he did not, he said that in three years schools would start teaching psychology. According to Kekelidze, this will help in the fight against child and adolescent drug addiction and alcoholism. And it will also save you from suicidal thoughts.
Psychology will be taught from the third grade. As reported , textbooks on the discipline have already been written. Almost all – up to the eighth grade inclusive. It remains to master the high school manuals. In the next two years, the developers plan to deal with this task.
The idea of introducing a new discipline into the school curriculum came from Zurab Kekelidze back in 2010.
“Every day we are told about oral hygiene and which paste is better. And they don’t tell us what to do, how to live in order not to harm our psyche, ”Kekelidze substantiated his thought.
The course of psychology is proposed to be introduced into the current OBZh course. But is it worth doing? Experts doubt it.
“I do not see any harm in the very idea of giving children knowledge about human behavior, personality structure, and interpersonal relationships. But the idea of including psychology in the OBZH course does not seem correct to me. Teaching psychology, if we are talking not about formal knowledge, but about meaningful knowledge, requires a sufficiently high level of qualifications, here it is important to be able to build a special contact with students, and this should be done by a teacher-psychologist. Shifting psychology onto OBZh teachers is like offering a hospital receptionist to conduct the initial admission of patients, “the portal quotes. Kirill Khlomov, psychologist, senior researcher at the laboratory of cognitive research, RANEPA.
Parents are of the same opinion.
“Our OBZH teacher asks children to write essays. Can you imagine? They learn by heart a list of military ranks. What for? They say that just a teacher of geography OBZh teaches – there are no specialists. And how will he also read psychology? If it is the way they read it to us at the university, without looking up from the textbook, then it’s better not, ”says Natalya Chernichnaya, mother of a tenth grade student.
By the way, not only psychology is proposed to be introduced in schools. Other initiatives include teaching the Bible, Church Slavonic, chess, agriculture, family life and political information.
“It would be better if astronomy was returned. Otherwise, soon everyone will be sure that the Sun revolves around the Earth, ”Natalya added gloomily.
Interview
Do you think psychology is needed in schools?
Of course, it is necessary, there is nothing to discuss here
Needed, but as a separate discipline
It is necessary, but here the question is in the quality of teaching. If the physical education teacher will teach, then it is better not
Children already have loads above the roof, this is already superfluous
We, as always, will do everything for show, and there will be no benefit
Children do not need to stuff their heads with nonsense. It is better to cancel the OBZH – the item is still useless