Interpretations of the Generation Theory in the Context of Russian Education
Basing on the analysis of the works of sociologists, anthropologists, educators, social psychologists, the classical definition of the generation is considered as the totality of all people born in a period of time (about 20 years) or lived in one historical period at least one phase of life: childhood, youth, or old age, and it meets three criteria: the residence of one historical era with the same key historical events and social trends; they share certain common beliefs and behaviours; experience and features that they share (W. Strauss, N. Hove) and also presents the author's interpretation of the fundamental characteristics of Russian generations, each of which is a contemporary of a fateful historical event that significantly changes either the foundations of the life of the country as a whole or the rules of life in a certain period of time. Are named and given descriptions of Russian generations: the Generation of Winners, the generation of the Cold War, the generation of perestroika, the first non-Soviet generation, the digital generation. Through the prism of the designated generation characteristics of all participants in the educational relations of the second decade of the XXI in Russia - teachers, students, parents, grandparents - the rationale for the specifics of their educational interactions is given.