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EDUCATIONAL REFORMS IN GEORGIA: CONTEMPORARY POINT OF VIEW OF GEORGIAN-OSSETIAN RELATIONS BASED ON RUSSIAN WRITTEN SOURCES OF XIX-XX CENTURY
Gori State Teaching University (GEORGIA)
About this paper:
Appears in: EDULEARN13 Proceedings
Publication year: 2013
Pages: 5588-5593
ISBN: 978-84-616-3822-2
ISSN: 2340-1117
Conference name: 5th International Conference on Education and New Learning Technologies
Dates: 1-3 July, 2013
Location: Barcelona, Spain
Abstract:
The work covers the issue and analysis of Georgian-Ossetian relations in the educational programs of Humanitarian Sciences. The Ossetians inhabited in Georgia always had different activities which are insufficiently described in these programs. Namely, some of them considered Georgia as their native country, but some were inspired of the idea of seizing its land. Although Ossettian people always had the possibility to enlarge the cultural tradition, to get the valuable education and create their own, worthy resent history for moving to the new step of the development.
From the realistic point of view of describing materials of Georgian-Ossetian relations in educational programs, presented work is mainly based on XIX century written sources. According to them it is interesting to discuss significant problems as:
1. The hard social conditions of Ossetians. The joint fight of Georgians and Ossetians against Czarism for liberating Georgia from Russian influence in the first decade of XIX century.
2. The issue of active Ossetian migration in Tskhinvali Region in the first decade of XX century.
3. The facts of four riots of Ossetians inhabited in Georgia in 1918-1920 was organized and financed by Soviet Russia being extremely severe in the history of Georgia. The sovereignty and territorial integrity of the country was in danger.
4. The politics of Georgian government towards Ossetians conditioned by the attempts for collapsing the Georgian State from Ossetian side.
Keywords:
XIX-XX century Russian written sources, Georgian-Ossetian relations, Russian politics, Educational policy, Ossetian migration, territorial integrity.