FEATURES OF SCHOOL UKRAINIZATION IN THE WESTERN REGION OF UKRAINE IN THE FIRST HALF OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY

Abstract

The publication concerns the study of historical and pedagogical developments on the problem of Ukrainiization of schools in the Western region of Ukraine in the early twentieth century.
The article contains analysis of the features and important factors of preservation of the Ukrainian school and education: social and political (collapse of empires and establishment of WUPR, artificial territorial demarcation, violent policy of foreign states and existence within such states, lack of rights for full education for Ukrainians), economic (backwardness, weak development of the economy and industry), cultural (low level of general culture development, contempt for the Ukrainian population etc.).
Based on the analysis of the source base (archival materials, scientific researches of modern scientists), the publication identifies important problems, directions, means of preserving the Ukrainian language and school.
The author expands the idea of the opportunities for schools and teachers to preserve Ukrainian ideas and the nation as a whole in Western Ukraine in the early twentieth century.
The article proves the idea of national education as the main goal of the school, namely the fact that Western Ukrainian educators constantly took care of the problems of school development, which resulted in Ukrainian studies in correspondence with the purpose and content of education.
The article finds that the preservation and development of the Ukrainian national school was facilitated by the expansion of the network of private educational institutions, including private gymnasiums.
The studied historical and pedagogical research allowed to single out the conditions for the preservation of the Ukrainian school, to focus on the features of the courses in the schools of Western Ukraine in the early twentieth century, which had a great impact on its Ukrainization.
The author emphasizes the need to study the research dedicated to the problems of Ukrainization of the school at that time for the sake of detailed scientific study, extrapolation of experience in modern schooling.