Monografiya adresovana tem, komu interesny protsessy, proiskhodyashchie v kul'turnykh i pedagogicheskikh sloyakh post-sotsialisticheskogo obshchestva. Kniga yavlyaet soboy popytku sootneseniya natsional'nykh tsennostey s real'nost'yu. V ney proslezhivaetsya svyaz' teoreticheskogo osmysleniya russkoy idei i russkogo kharaktera kak abstraktnykh ponyatiy v otechestvennoy filosofii - cherez obnaruzhenie ikh v natsional'nykh vzglyadakh na vospitanie - s konkretikoy vozniknoveniya i sushchestvovaniya shkoly traditsionnoy kul'tury, postavivshey zadachu sfokusirovat' vnimanie ne tol'ko na natsional'nom soderzhanii, no i na natsional'nykh formakh peredachi informatsii. Kniga predstavlyaet pedagogicheskiy opyt organizatsii voskresnoy shkoly na baze muzeya i praktiku sotrudnichestva s doshkol'nym uchrezhdeniem. Mozhno skazat', ona otrazhaet zhivoy poisk mysli o bolee sovershennoy vospitatel'noy sisteme, kotoraya by sootvetstvovala natsional'noy idee, libo ne protivorechila ey.
