The values of cultural sovereignty in Russia and China: an educational perspective

The article provides a rationale for the emergence of the term “cultural sovereignty” and its substantive development in foreign and Russian science, as well as its definition in the Fundamentals of the State Cultural Policy of the Russian Federation. Based on an analysis of Russian and Chinese legal sources, the article identifies the position of state cultural policy and the policy of preserving and strengthening traditional values, as well as the key means of cultural sovereignty for states, such as education and upbringing. The author highlights the traditional spiritual and moral values that are characteristic of the cultures of both countries and provides examples of anti-values. The paper clarifies the fundamental components of “Russian” and “traditional” values and presents a hierarchy (system) of the spiritual and moral (“core”) values of Chinese society. The Russian and Chinese traditional spiritual and moral values presented in the work are defined as key integrators of the cultural sovereignty of both countries under consideration, and the established legal framework is a reflection of the state policy aimed at protecting, consolidating, and regulating traditional values in the field of education, as well as a fundamental basis for updating the content of Russian and Chinese education. The author proposes methods for creating a unified value space within the educational system of the Russian Federation and the People’s Republic of China. As examples, the high importance of the implementation of the Ministry of Education of the Russian Federation’s project “Conversations about Important Things” and the integrated “Ideological and Political Course” in the practice of teaching in schools and universities in the People’s Republic of China has been revealed, within the framework of which the objectives and ideas of traditional spiritual and moral education of students and undergraduates in both countries will be implemented. The article proposes a regulation on the development of scientific and methodological support for comprehensive work in schools and universities, aimed at forming a system of skills, values, and behavioral patterns, as well as the need to update the system of educational activities in pedagogical universities in working with future teachers through modern and innovative approaches to teaching that meet the state policy in the context of cultural sovereignty.

cultural sovereignty, values, traditional values, means of cultural sovereignty, education, upbringing