The purpose of the study is to provide a detailed presentation of the main results of the scientific work of Professor V.K. Pichugina, Doctor of Pedagogical Sciences, member of the Russian Academy of Education, on the basis of which it is possible to determine the role and place of the scientist in the process of radical change in the methodological foundations of the history of pedagogy in Russia in the first quarter of the 21st century. Research methods: a problem-personalistic methodological approach; retrospective, system-structural, and comparative-historical methods of historical-pedagogical research; as well as the method of descriptive analysis, which allows for the identification and systematization of methodological discoveries and the professional and personal positions of the scholar. Research results and conclusions. The study established that the main subject field of V.K. Pichugina's research is the history of pedagogical culture, within which many ways of perceiving, describing, and reconstructing the pedagogical reality of the past require methodological renewal. Significant results have been obtained in the following research directions: historical-pedagogical and historical-anthropological study of the phenomenon of "care of the self"; the history and anthropology of educational urbanism; the history of curricula from different eras; the history of ancient theater as a school on stage; and pedagogical anthology as a form of historical memory. The scholar is actively working to popularize the ancient pedagogical heritage of the past and publishes a unique thematic journal on the history of pedagogical culture, Hypothekai. The results of many years of research enrich not only research practice with new methodological approaches and corresponding tools, but also educational practice with an understanding of the logic of development of educational institutions and the genesis of phenomena significant to the history of pedagogical culture. V.K. Pichugina can be considered among the leading historians of pedagogy in contemporary Russia.
V.K. Pichugina, history of pedagogy, history of pedagogical culture, methodology of the history of pedagogy, pedagogical heritage of antiquity, journal «Hypothekai»
1. Pichugina V. K. (2009), “Anthropological-Pedagogical Concepts in Russia in the Second Half of the 19th – Early 20th Century”, abstract of dissertation … Candidate of Pedagogical Sciences, Volgograd, 28 p.
2. Pichugina V. K. (2011), “Discourse in Pedagogy: Retrospect and Prospect”, Pedagogical Traditions and Innovations in the History of Pedagogical Culture, Moscow, Academy of Social Management, pp. 313–320.
3. Pichugina V. K. (2014), “Development of the Anthropological Discourse of “Care of the Self” in the History of Ancient Pedagogy”, abstract of dissertation … Doctor of Pedagogical Sciences, Volgograd, 44 p.
4. Pichugina V. K. (2013), “Main Approaches to Understanding the History of Pedagogy”, Domestic and Foreign Pedagogy, No 2 (11), pp. 22–33.
5. Pichugina V. K., Bezrogov V. G. (2016), “The History of Pedagogy in the Modern Era”, Pedagogy, No 8, pp. 104–112.
6. Pichugina V. K. (2019), “Anthropology of the Educational Urban Space: Practices and Images. All-Russian Seminar”, Praxema. Problems of Visual Semiotics, No 1 (19), pp. 204–210, DOIhttps://doi.org/10.23951/2312-7899-2019-1-204-210.
7. Pichugina V. K., Lourier Z. A. (2022), “The City-University and the State-University: William Clark’s Methodological Toolkit”, Higher Education in Russia, V. 31, No 5, pp. 84–101, DOIhttps://doi.org/10.31992/0869-3617-2022-31-5-84-101.
8. Pichugina V. K. (ed.) (2021), “Educational Spaces and Anthropopractices of the City”, collective monograph, Moscow, Akvilon, 480 p., ISBN 978-5-906578-73-0.
9. Pichugina V. K., Zhirnova A. S. (2023), “Curriculum for a Hero: Heracles and Achilles”, Kaliningrad, Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University, 220 p., ISBN 978-5-9971-0716-1.
10. Pichugina V. K. (2018), “Yason in Seneca’s Tragedy “Medea”: A Bad or Good Husband, Father, and Mentor?”, Schole. Philosophical Studies of Antiquity and the Classical Tradition, V. 12, No 1, pp. 220–242, DOIhttps://doi.org/10.21267/AQUILO.2018.12.10427.
11. Pichugina V.K. (2018), “Sisterly Love and Brotherly Hatred in Euripides’ “Phoenician Women”: An Anthropological-Pedagogical Commentary”, Chelovek.RU, No 13, pp. 104–115, DOIhttps://doi.org/10.32691/2410-0935-2018-13-104-115.
12. Pichugina V. K. (2019), “Ancient Texts in statu quo: The Origins of the Genre of Pedagogical Anthology as a Form of Historical Memory”, Dialogue with Time, No 66, pp. 19–36.
13. Pichugina V. K. (2020), “Creating Personalized Anthologies Using Primary Sources”, A Handbook for Teaching about the Ancient World, Vol. 1, Oxford, Archaeopress Publishing Ltd, pp. 149–150.
14. Pichugina V. K., Bezrogov V. G. (2019), “Anthology of the Pedagogical Heritage of Ancient Greece and Rome”, Moscow, LLC “Russkoe Slovo – textbook”, 448 p., ISBN 978-5-533-00739-9.
15. Rybakov V. V., Bezrogov V. G., Pichugina V. K. (2021), “Anthology of the Pedagogical Heritage of the Middle Ages, Renaissance, and Reformation”, Moscow, LLC “Russkoe Slovo – textbook”, 576 p., ISBN 978-5-533-02201-9.
16. (2023), “Anthology of the Pedagogical Heritage of Eastern Cultures”, Moscow, LLC “Akvilon”, 516 p., ISBN 978-5-906578-96-9.
17. (2025), “Anthology of the Pedagogical Heritage of Europe XVII-XIX Centuries”, Moscow, LLC “Akvilon”, 432 p.
18. Romanov A. A., Astashova N. A., Bim-Bad B. M. [et al.] (2020), “Vitaliy Bezrogov – 60 Years”, Ryazan, “Kontseptsiya” Publishing, 344 p., ISBN 978-5-4464-0162-8.
