HISTORICAL AND PEDAGOGICAL DIALECTICS OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF ERSON LIFE-CREATION’S THEORY AND PRACTICE IN NATIONAL EDUCATION IN THE 16TH AND EARLY 20TH CENTURY

Abstract

The article analyzes socio-political, cultural and educational prerequisites for the development of life-creation pedagogy at the Cossack times and during the times when Ukrainian lands were under the Russian and Austrian empires. It was found out in the study that the development of life-creation pedagogy at the Cossack times was facilitated by the following factors: personal liberty and dignity as social practice, emergence of a new educational phenomenon of Cossack pedagogy, which envisaged the development of a person as a creator of own life. During the period, when Ukrainian lands were ruled by the Russian and Austrian empires the development of life-creation pedagogy was complicated by enslavement and constant pressure on national culture for the purpose of its destruction. The study defined the contribution of such Ukrainian teachers as Hryhoriy Skovoroda, Pamfil Yurkevych, Mykola Korf, Ivan Franko, Borys Grinchenko to the development of conceptual framework of life-creation pedagogy. The scientific novelty of the obtained results is the following: for the first time a holistic historical and pedagogical analysis of the Ukrainian life-creation pedagogy theory and practice was conducted; the socio-political, cultural and educational prerequisites for the development of Ukrainian life-creation pedagogy from the Cossack times were comprehensively reviewed. The research specifies the following: the content of the life-creation concept, taking into account the procedural and practical, creative and acmeological, life-creation phenomenon evaluative and semantic aspects; the scientific argumentation concerning the theoretical structuring of life-creation pedagogy as an educational concept; the methodological approaches and principles for the correct interpretation of life-creation pedagogy conceptual ideas in historical and pedagogical context; the social, methodological and pedagogical criteria for the Ukrainian life-creation pedagogy theory and practice development periodization.