Stages of Dismantling Pedology in the Educational Space of Leningrad

The aim of the work is to identify the stages of dismantling pedology in the educational space of Leningrad. To achieve the goal, 3 key tasks have been identified. First of all, it is worth considering the emergence of pedology in the educational space of Petrograd-Leningrad. The second task is to investigate the moment when pedology was addressed and consolidated as an instrument of state policy. At this stage, it is important to understand what demands the state made of educators, what tasks were assigned to pedologists. How their interaction was represented in the political and economic aspect, since the origins of dismantling begin to form long before the official ban. Special attention will be devoted to the analysis of pedological workers' activities, which is built on the documents of reports on the events and memories of the participants. The final task will be to analyze the defeat of pedology in Leningrad, after which it will be possible to reconstruct the declared pedagogical discourse. The corpus of sources for the study contains a selection of documents, mostly from the TsGA SPb, TsGAIPD, and TsGANTD. The main function of epistolary sources is to identify key figures of the process under study and to form an "internal response" to the experiments. The study and classification of the document circulation are important in order to identify the main problems of pedological activity on the basis of the obtained data. The results of the study prove the significance of the following periods