Fedor Petrovich Korovkin (June 1 (14), 1903, Bezhetsk - December 1, 1981 , Moscow ) - Soviet methodologist historian, author of a textbook on the history of the Ancient World for high school students. Candidate of Pedagogical Sciences (1961). Honored teacher of the school of the RSFSR (1973). Laureate of the USSR State Prize (1973).
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Biography
Came from a merchant family. By the beginning of the XIX century , his ancestors were the richest in Bezhetsk , where residents still keep a memory of the charitable activities of the Korovkin family. One of the representatives of this house, Pyotr Nikolaevich Korovkin was married to Nadezhda Ivanovna Revyakina.
In their family in the summer of 1903 the youngest son Fedor Petrovich Korovkin was born. His childhood and youth passed in Rybinsk , with relatives from his mother [1] . All family property was confiscated after 1917.
In 1926 he graduated from the historical and archival department of Moscow State University . In 1925-1957 he taught history in Moscow schools. In 1945-1981 he worked at the Research Institute of Content and Teaching Methods of the Academy of Pedagogical Sciences of the USSR (SRI SIMO APN USSR).
Legacy
He is the author of a textbook on the history of the ancient world for the 5th grade (first edition - 1957), as well as historical and geographical maps, tables, and other visual aids, works on the methodology of teaching history at school. This textbook has survived several editions and is still the main textbook for schoolchildren of Russian educational institutions [2] .
- Other jobs
- Pedagogical requirements for school textbooks and other educational history books. - M., 1961.
- Methods of teaching the history of the ancient world and the Middle Ages in grades 5-6. - M., 1970 (as amended by N.I. Zaporozhets).
- Methods of teaching history in high school. Part 1. - M., 1978 (soavt. And otvet. Ed.).