Having found themselves in a foreign land after the 1917 revolution and the Civil War, Russian emigrants tried to establish the old system of education and upbringing or create a new one. The changed social conditions - exile-required the search for new forms of work with children and young people. Despite many difficulties, the emigrants created an extensive and fairly coherent system of educational institutions.
The emigrants ' focus on their speedy return to their homeland determined the nature and type of education in foreign schools - mainly humanities: ancient languages, Russian literature, history, Russian language, geography. "The main goal of the education system in emigration was to preserve the Russian identity, so natural sciences and mathematics, international in content, were taught in accordance with the curricula adopted in the country of residence" (Mark Raev. Russia abroad. Istoriya kul'tury i russkoi emigratsii 1919-1939: Istoriya kul'tury i russkoi emigratsii 1919-1939 [History of Culture and Russian Emigration 1919-1939].
Emigrants attached great importance to both the organization of children's education and educational work with them, because they believed that not only the acquired knowledge forms the personality of a young person who will return to his native country in the coming years. For these purposes, there were various educational unions and associations. Some of them were restored from dore-
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the revolutionary past, for example: scouts, falcons, and others have already appeared in the emigrant "circle of life" - knights, scouts, and Musketeers.
In 1909, on the initiative of O. I. Pantyukhov, the first scout organizations appeared in Russia - immediately after their creation in England. The founder was Colonel R. Baden-Pole in 1908. The purpose of scout organizations is to educate young people aged 7-21 in a playful way while learning crafts and nature. Both boys (Boy Scouts) and girls (Girl Scouts) participated in these organi ...
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