The Role of the Russian Provisional Government Penitentiary Courses in the Training of the Prison Administration (1917)
Historical pedagogical aspects of establishing and functioning of the Penitentiary courses of professional training of penitentiary staff in 1917 are concerned in the article. In respect of the successive influence of the past on the modern conditions in the sphere of the penitentiary staff training, the actualization of its historical pedagogical evolution is shown. Based on the analysis of the scientific historical pedagogical sources, the article presents the social and historical premises of establishing the Penitentiary courses after the February Revolution of 1917. The great attention is paid to the analysis of the organizational-pedagogical structure of the Penitentiary courses. The conceptual part of the penitentiary staff training program and the instructional staff recruitment is analyzed; the author draws a parallel between them and the modern researches in the sphere of conception of person-centered approach in education. The author’s point of view on the role of the Penitentiary courses in training modern federal penitentiary staff is provided.