The Idea of Authenticity of Ukrainian Pedagogy in the Scientific Works of Omelyan Vyshnevskyi

Abstract

The purpose of the article is to analyze the views of Omelyan Vyshnevskyi on the idea of ​​national authenticity of Ukrainian pedagogy and trace the main directions of its implementation in the scientist's writings. The research methodology is based on the principles of scientificity, historicism, authorial objectivity, systematicity, as well as methods of historical-pedagogical analysis and synthesis. The scientific novelty is that for the first time in Ukrainian pedagogical science, the views of the famous Ukrainian teacher O. Vyshnevskyi (1931 – 2019) on the idea of ​​national authenticity of Ukrainian pedagogy were analyzed. Results and conclusions of the study. It was investigated that O. Vyshnevskyi, when analyzing Ukrainian pedagogy of the late 20th – early 21st centuries. distinguished two lines of its development: 1) the post-communist one, which focuses on the pedagogical systems of V. Sukhomlynskyi, A. Makarenko and other Soviet teachers; 2) national-democratic, which focuses on centuries-old national pedagogical tradition, but does not accept Soviet pedagogical theories, which are based on communist ideals. In his scientific works, O. Vyshnevskyi advocated the need for research and development of national-democratic pedagogy as authentic for Ukrainian pedagogical culture. Returning to authenticity, according to the professor, involves the implementation of three fundamental principles. First, the restoration of the organic connection of modern Ukrainian pedagogy with its national pedagogical tradition. Secondly, the return to the traditional Christian system of values, or, according to O. Vyshnevskyi, to the traditional Christian strategy of Ukrainian pedagogy. Thirdly, an in-depth reassessment of the content of education, in particular upbringing, which led to the need for great attention to this aspect, and therefore a reorientation to national priorities. The idea of ​​the authenticity of national pedagogy permeates all the works of Professor O. Vyshnevskyi, written by him after the restoration of independent Ukraine.