PARENTAL EVALUATION OF UDMURT LANGUAGE TEACHING IN URBAN AND RURAL SCHOOLS

Abstract

The article presents comparison of parental attitudes towards native language courses at urban and rural schools in the Udmurt Republic. Ethnic programs can be perceived by parents as the educational resource allowing to acquire useful educational and cultural knowledge or as ineffective additional loading in school. Sociological research which was based on survey reveals not only cultural, but also social distinctions of families. They influence educational strategy for children. Those parents, who have sustainable ethnic identity, support existence of ethnic programs along with studying of the native language. In this case family lives in the conditions of active use of the Udmurt language as a tool of daily communication. Rural people assume that children, will maintain contact with a family and a local community regardless future training and employment type. Urban and rural people, who live in conditions of the dominating (Russian) language, are critical towards the ethnic programs.