THIS PAGE PRESENTS A CONCEPT OF AN INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATION IN EDUCATIONAL PROJECTS, THAT PROMOTE A CERTAIN APPROACH OF PEDAGOGY, CREATED NEARLY 100 YEARS AGO AND NAMED BY UNESCO AS ONE OF THE FOUR MAIN EDUCATIONAL SYSTEMS OF THE CENTURY.

THIS COLLABORATION UNITES PRIVATE EDUCATION, CHARITY SCHOLARSHIPS, SPORTS FOUNDING AND CLASSIC PUBLIC SCHOOL UNDER ONE FRIENDLY ROOF.

THE IDEA IS TO PEOPLE OF DIFFERENT IN ALL MEANS BACKGROUND, WHICH ALLOWS KIDS TO LEARN UNDERSTANDING DIFFERENT KIDS, AND AT THE SAME TIME WILL ALLOW CONSTANT AND STABLE FUNCTIONING OF THE SCHOOL.

ЧИТАТЬ НА РУССКОМ

International School of Key and Star on the island of Mauritius
MACARENCO
Elementary school for children 5-9 years old
Middle School 10 - 14
Professional technical education 12 - 18
School of sports 5 - 105 лет
Education for Russians and Mauritians
Scholarships and private education
Certification in the Russian educational system
«It is impossible to teach a person to be happy, but you can raise him so that he is happy.».
Anton Makarenko
Lectures on children upbringing
Initiative
  • Steeve LEBRASSE
    Mauritius
    Steve Lebrasse, Mauritius. A well-known public figure, representative of large commercial structures in the hospitality sector, head of the La Kaz Social Harmonie project. Member of MSK, Order of the Star and Key of the Indian Ocean.
  • Education Lyrics
    Anton Sergeevich Makarenko, a man who formulated impeccable laws of working with children, allowing not only to teach, but also to raise happy people of the future. His work initiated and inspired this project,
  • Maria SHABAT
    Россия
    Maria Shabat, Russia. Mother of many children, television producer, trustee of two charitable foundations, investor in the sports tourism business in Mauritius.
Part One: Background. Social project. Active since 2020.
Sociological research in the Black River district in southwestern Mauritius has shown that even in such an ideal country there are problems. Early debut of sexual activity gives rise to earlier motherhood, which entails infantilization of the population. Alas, this too often ends... in alcoholism.

The La Kaz Social project, headed by Steve Lebrasse, has been successfully working with teenagers for three years, teaching them technical professions related to boats: this is a prestigious and in-demand job on the island.

The project is expanding to include the Brando Watersports school in 2025. With the support of relevant government agencies, days will be organized where regular events are held, free of charge for program participants:
  • Swimming lessons
  • Diving training
  • Water Safety Basic Drill
  • First aid
  • Seminars for parents of children involved in sports
  • Basic training in surfing, kiteboarding, wakeboarding, wing surfing
  • Introduction to Navigation Theory
Scholarships are granted for children who have demonstrated sports talent: personal training and training to the level of forming the island’s national team.
«If there is no goal for the team,
then it is impossible to find a way to organize it».
Anton Makarenko
Article on the problems of setting up a Soviet School
According to variety of estimates, about two thousand Russians permanently reside in Mauritius. Considering the total population of the island is 1.3 million people, this is a lot. Moreover, due to both the hospitality of the island and long-standing friendship, Russians behave actively here: they are allowed to build a business and raise children at both the state and public levels.
The weather in Mauritius is conducive not only to study, but also to active sports. Suitable for happiness.
October 2024
Russian Embassy in Mauritius turns the page
The new Ambassador Irada Zeynalova, arrived in Mauritius and immediately invited all Russians present to meet.
Meeting of Russians with their ambassador
She introduced herself and expressed her readiness to actively support our activities on the island.
Old wounds of Russian moms
Naturally, the mothers immediately expressed their desire to see a school at the embassy that would respond to the request to teach Russian children Russian, literature, and history
What's more to wish
- and for their official certification in all subjects in the Russian education system.
Part Four.
International school project development in Mauritius.
The initiative group has prepared a school project that will satisfy not only all of the above requests, but will also add to them a full cycle of education according to the classical system, widely used in the Soviet Union - and not yet completely lost in the whirlwind of educational changes of the late twentieth century in Russia.

Established methods of approaching the pedagogical techniques themselves and presenting academic material have brought and continue to bring our children to a level many times higher than that of traditional British and European education.

Naturology, history, mathematics - and so on in approximately all disciplines, including extracurricular activities: the system of family starts, the organization of children's watches and squads, all this was ahead of its time, and is a worthy education system.

The Makarenko International School will compete with other international schools in Mauritius, which use other, certainly no less respectable, methods.
Part Five. Project Draft.
Considering the amazing offer for teachers, the project has reason to count on the best representatives of the profession from all over Russia.
Imported teachers employment. Work in shifts with high demands.

The calendar year is divided into three parts: September - December, January - May, June-August. Teachers work no more than two parts in a row.

The school employs teachers who speak English and/or French at a level that allows them to teach in these languages. This is confirmed through certification by the relevant Mauritian government body.

Sports and extra-curricular activities are organized using Mauritian residents.

Each of the arriving specialists must present their subject and their methodology to their Mauritian colleagues in a seminar format.

All lessons are available for attendance by Mauritian teachers and/or parents of students.
Organization of school work. Under discussion
A board of trustees is formed, whose members fill in the funds missing for work. There is agreement in principle from several private philanthropists who will confirm it after the budget is formed.
«Education always happens, even when you are not at home».
Anton Makarenko
Education Lyrics
Notes
Majority of Mauritians can't swim, consider ocean a source of danger, never heard about being on all top surf spots lists, hardly know their own history and remain inactive politically.

It is hard, but important for Russians to understand, that this attitude is a form of patriotism, common for island nations. Unlike Russia, it has nothing to do with bad habits, it's as simple as island mentality.

Mauritians don't look into other countries: they know that they are here forever, that the sunsets will keep being as amazing as now, and the air will stay as sweet.

Mauritians, blessed to be born and to live "in paradise", are both wise and romantic. For those who know, this description is exactly what makes for a successful export of Russian education to Maurutius.
«Our pedagogical production has never been built according to technological logic, but always according to the logic of moral preaching. This is especially noticeable in the field of one’s own education... Why do we study the resistance of materials in technical universities, but in pedagogical universities we do not study the resistance of the individual when they begin to educate him?».
Anton Makarenko
Interview
Lyrics of Education
Why Makarenko, and not, for example, the Tsarsko-Selo Lyceum, which educated Pushkin and was sung by him.

The lyceum in which he was formed was sung by Alexander Pushkin so much that his words are still used to describe more or less any pedagogical success.

Anton Makarenko created his famous system based on his experience working with prisoners and street children. And although he always said that he based his work on the hypothesis that no special methods should be used in relation to street children, there is something in the image of his teaching that seems to be associated with difficult children.

His main idea was to give every kid a reason to go to school. Whether it's trigonometry or a paint throwing club, there must be something attractive for every child. What was a criminal child mind 100 years ago is now a personality standard: upcoming generations do not see school as something obligatory, because they generally don't take any obligations they didn't sign up for. What was a wicked Soviet Union 100 years ago is now a mainstream idea: collective work, responsibility for your team mates and a humbleness.

Interesting fact: Makarenko has proved, that an optimal class volume is 7 - 15 children.

The Lyceum in Tsarskoe Selo was designed for a very narrow stratum of people who were purposefully trained to become great and prominent figures of their era. Even in this narrow stratum, not everyone understood this task correctly.

Anton Semenovich, in turn, seemed to have foreseen that in the 21st century there would be no “normal” or “standard” children left; the personal brightness of the new generation has increased dramatically. In this regard, it is precisely this kind of training that is required, at a systemic level, allowing each individual to grow in accordance with the needs and capabilities of this particular individual, but to do this in a team.



Let the difficult task of positioning the school under the Makarenko brand, and not Pushkin, become the most difficult task of the project.

After all, it can be solved by... teaching by the Makarenko method.
1958: Public speech by someone under big impression from the achievements of Soviet eduction, but still not convinced it should be implemented in his country.
1 ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
2 MIDDLE & HIGH SCHOOL
3 EXTRACURRICULAR
TEACHING and PARENTING