The Question of Gender in Pedagogical Theory and Practice of Education

Among the pedagogical quests in Russia at the turn of the 20th and 21st centuries, a special place is occupied by teachers' attention to the gender factor in education, the return to the separate education of boys and girls. For most Russian educators it is not obvious relationship between different approaches to understanding of the bio-historical phenomenon "gender" and the ability to implement an individual and personal approach in education, in general, the reasons for the transformation of approaches to the "question of gender" in domestic pedagogy are not clear. The thesis investigates the preconditions and tendencies of "gender issue" transformation in the pedagogical science and practice of education in Russia in XYIII-XX centuries; the differences between gender and sex approaches are revealed; the problems of integration and institutionalization of gender approach in the modern Russian pedagogics are described. The work is addressed to the teachers of pedagogical disciplines at universities and pedagogical colleges, institutes of professional development and retraining of teachers, students and graduate students researching gender aspects of education.