V knige rassmatrivayutsya problemy genezisa, stanovleniya i razvitiya otechestvennogo vospitaniya s IX po XX vv. Avtor analiziruet prirodno-klimaticheskie, geopoliticheskie i geokul"turnye usloviya rossiyskogo istoriko-pedagogicheskogo protsessa, rol" kul"turnogo genotipa v formirovanii otechestvennykh idealov vospitaniya, proslezhivaet preemstvennost" v idealakh i tsennostyakh tselenapravlennoy inkul"turatsii molodyezhi.