Educational potential of the course "Fundamentals of Religious Cultures and Secular Ethics"

The authors explore the potential educational opportunities of the training course "Fundamentals of Religious Cultures and Secular Ethics". The content of these meanings is directly and indirectly connected with the languages of ethics. The analysis is based on a universalist cultural approach, which allows using cultural universals and languages as a way of representing meanings. As cultural methods and techniques of analysis in the course of the study were: content analysis in the study of the content of educational literature in order to detect features of the representation of ethical concepts; method of conceptual analysis of the discovered ethical concepts; comparative-historical method in the analysis of the features of the formation of ethical ideas; structural-functional method in the analysis of the place and functions of education and upbringing in the system of culture. It is concluded that the development and appropriation of ethical concepts allows creating conditions for the education and socialization of students. A specific methodology is proposed for updating ethical concepts and their cultural meanings, which are explicated in the key texts of Russian culture (verbal and visual). In this regard, a system of tasks and exercises has been developed, reflecting the author's program of the course.