THE UKRAINIAN FAMILY IN WESTERN UKRAINE AT THE END 18th-THE BEGINNING OF THE 20th CENTURY AS A FOLK-PEDAGOGICAL INSTITUTION

Abstract

his purpose, the main functions of the Ukrainian family in Western Ukraine in the studied period are considered – biopsychological, ecological, social and socio-psychological (including communicative). Family education of children is the quintessence of the entire spiritual and moral culture of the people.The classification of family functions is presented in historical reflection and ethno-pedagogical context, and also the content of each function as well as its relationship with the ethno-pedagogical context of family functioning in Western Ukraine . We have proven that the phenomena of children’s birth and marriage, our ancestors; awareness of the importance of human life in and outside the family, and the importance of raising children by both parents have an ethno-pedagogical significance to the biopsychological function of the family.The role of labor education of children in the Western Ukrainian family, and the organization and formation of children’s household skills, are notable in regards to the ecological function of the family.The main indicators of this function are defined in the work as the naturalness of the educational process, ensuring a peculiar ecology of the personality of each family member, the responsibility of parents for the lives of children, respect for the authority of parents, etc.As far as the determination of the family’s social function content, we came to the conclusion that in the ethno-pedagogical context, this functional group includes the upbringing of universal and purely national values, the formation of consciousness of one's kind and land, a sense of belonging to a certain social stratum and the Ukrainian community in general, as well as formation of children’s skills of coexistence within their social group and with other social groups in the Western Ukrainian society.We have revealed the socio-psychological function of the family through general cultural processes in the family, the implementation of Christian principles of upbringing, mental education of children by means of ethnopedagogy, ensuring the preservation of ethno-cultural traditions of the Ukrainian family based on the preservation of language, faith, rules and laws of coexistence in the community.It was noted that the foundations of the phenomenon of the Ukrainian family are derived from the depth of Ukraine’s history and the formation of the mentality of the Ukrainian people, which was formed over thousands of years as a settled, agricultural people with its original spiritual core.