The Program of Pedagogical Disciplines in Pedagogical Educational Institutions in Ukraine: the 30S of the 20Th Century Bashkir, Olha
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For more Information see: Sie hier: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.de International Letters of Social and Humanistic Sciences Submitted: 2016-09-02 ISSN: 2300-2697, Vol. 74, pp 26-32 Revised: 2016-10-16 doi:10.18052/www.scipress.com/ILSHS.74.26 Accepted: 2016-10-17 © 2016 SciPress Ltd., Switzerland Online: 2016-11-30 The Program of Pedagogical Disciplines in Pedagogical Educational Institutions in Ukraine (The 30s of the 20th Century) Olha Bashkir1, a * 1Alchevskykh Street, 29, Kharkiv, Ukraine H. S. Skovoroda Kharkiv National Pedagogical University [email protected] Keywords: pedagogy, pedagogical institute, department of pedagogy, educational program in pedagogy. Abstract. The process of forming program provision for teaching pedagogical disciplines, pedagogy in particular, in pedagogical educational institutions has been characterized in the article on the basis of analyzed pedagogical literature, archival records, and scientific researches in periodicals. Pedagogical educational institutions in Ukraine were reorganized from the institutes of public education to “the united pedagogical institutes” at the beginning of the 30s of the 20th century (1933). The content of programs for disciplines of pedagogical direction (pedagogy, paedology, didactics, and history of pedagogy) has been revealed. They had undergone some changes due to the reformation of higher pedagogical education in Ukraine before the creation of classical pedagogical educational institution. 1. Introduction The process of teacher training always raises a lot of questions, behind which there exists concern about whether this training is capable to fulfil the tasks of national importance assigned to a pedagogical educational institution – to train teachers aimed to the future, able to form in young people active and responsible aspiration for renewal of the world they live in [3]. One of the peculiarities of education development in Ukraine at the beginning of the 20th century was the opening of a network of institutions of higher pedagogical education and generalization of accumulated domestic and foreign experience of training educational personnel. During the period under research a clear structure of higher educational institution of pedagogical orientation was built due to the socio-economic determinants. In the 19th century teacher training was carried scholastic, young people receiving higher pedagogical education at university departments of pedagogy showed no desire to be engaged in the mass education of people and actually were not ready for this due to the level of the development of the necessary theoretical and methodological provision. At the beginning of the 20th century there were different kinds of institutions in Ukraine (Temporary Pedagogical Courses, scientific societies, Higher Courses for Women, etc.) training future teachers either only at the last graduation year (Odessa Higher Courses for Women), or of the choice of the student who had the desire to be engaged in teaching activities in the future (Kharkiv and Kyiv Higher Courses for Women). Programs of teacher training in these educational institutions had been poorly developed since the purpose of these institutions was somewhat different. The creation of a number of Institutions of Public Education (IPE) in the 20s of the 20th century in Ukraine initiated a focused teacher training; it stimulated the Ministry of Public Education to create a unified curriculum for IPE. The Intended purpose of the Institutes was mass teacher training for secondary schools. A special place in the development of work and educational programs of these institutions was taken by the Department of Pedagogy, which was engaged in organization of connection between school and life, professional development of teachers, development of advanced ideas of education and training. It was the experience IPE that became crucial in the development of institution of higher pedagogical education of Ukraine in 1933. In the 21st century, much attention is paid to the formation of teacher-specialist, professional, able to organise teaching and educational process on all levels of education, in all types of SciPress applies the CC-BY 4.0 license to works we publish: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ International Letters of Social and Humanistic Sciences Vol. 74 27 educational institutions, to carry out research activity within his or her speciality, to organise continuity of self-education, to be constantly ready for management activity. The state sets institutions of pedagogical higher education such tasks. One of the ways to solve the tasks is to save and augment traditions of the Department of Pedagogy as a structural unit of pedagogical higher educational institution in developing educational programs. The creative approach and responsibility of the professional and teaching staff of the department for the program project favour mastering modern teaching skills by future teachers. “The teacher who continues to teach today as he taught yesterday deprives children of the future” [2] – that is the principle by which pedagogy should be arranged. However, ensuring the future effectiveness is impossible without generalisation of the past experience. Thus, studying experience of constructing educational programs in pedagogy, the content reveals and analysis of educational programs for pedagogy of the period under research can contribute to improving the quality of teacher training in modern higher school. 2. The literary review It should be noted that the issues of development of educational programs on pedagogy in institutions of higher pedagogical education have not been thoroughly studied. The analysis of the scientific literature [1, 3, 8] shows that the problems related to the training of future teachers were in the focus of attention of scientific researches of such outstanding educationalists as Yu. Babanskyi, A. Makarenko, M. Pyrohov, H. Skovoroda, V. Sukhomlynskyi, K. Ushynskyi. Step-by-step and consecutive teacher training was the basis of educational technologies developed by O. Piechota, A. Kikhtenko [9]. However, the studies were not concentrated on educational programs on pedagogy; they did not analyze their themes. That is why the lack of researches about the development of educational programs on pedagogy, the availability of interesting and effective experience of their construction led to this study. Little known archive materials of the Central State Archives of Supreme Bodies of Power and Government of Ukraine and publications of the period stated became the basis and sources of the scientific research. 3. The main text Since the opening of Institutes of Public Education (IPE) in Ukraine (1921), there was active development of departments of pedagogy and, respectively, of pedagogical science due to the need for teaching personnel. For example, in 1922-1923 academic year the intake of students was 2368 people for pedagogical education, while there were 1403 people for medical education, 920 people for agricultural education, 1137 people for industrial and technological education, 1118 people for social and economic education [10]. IPE became purely pedagogical educational institutions, unlike the former scholastic universities. Great efforts were made to link theoretical training of students with practical teaching life. Accordingly, a great number of departments were created which had to be aimed at training secondary school teachers by their names, personnel and work content. Most of these departments were included in the system of branches, but there were also all-institute departments, standing beyond the branches. The Departments of Philosophy, Logic and Psychology, General History, the History of Ukraine, Political Economy, the History of Russian Literature, the History of Ukrainian literature, Paedology etc were the most important [12, pp. 306-308]. The interesting range of subjects taught at the Institutes attracts attention. In Kharkiv IPE, for instance, there were Introduction to Pedagogy, Modern Trends of Pedagogical Thought, Psychology, Mental Life of Children, Psychology of Children's Creative Work, Fundamentals of Aesthetic Education, Physical Development of Children, School Hygiene, and Manual Labour [13]. Teaching these subjects had far-reaching consequences – these were the first steps to reorganize the system of pedagogical education in Ukraine and creating Pedagogical Institutes. While specific main subjects, in which IPE had to train teachers-specialists, got in a difficult situation, pedagogical disciplines took leading position. Since 1924 they made 30% of the total 28 Volume 74 academic load. There was a time period when such pedagogical subjects as Organization