Креативний потенціал універсальної науково-педагогічної спадщини Яна Амоса Коменського

Abstract

The article emphasizes that J. A. Komensky as one of the creators of the modern pedagogical system showed himself in his numerous works as a passionate and consistent supporter of education general democratization. For the first time in the history of world pedagogical thought he created a system of rational and progressive didactics, substantiated the significant influence of native language on training and education. From the standpoint of democracy and humanism, he made a profound and substantiated critical analysis of the entire medieval and scholastic system of education. He thoroughly studied, and according to his social, pedagogical and philosophical outlook critically reworked those valuables that his predecessors and contemporaries accumulated in the theory and practice of education. J. Komensky developed a progressive pedagogical doctrine permeated with the idea of nationality. On the basis of Komensky’s fundamental philosophical and pedagogical work “Great Didacticsˮ the paper analyses the authorʼs contribution to the development of the education theory and practice. It proclaims the exceptional importance of the work, which substantiates a new system of human education based on the carefully learned laws of nature, and addressed to the eternal values. The focus is laid on the scientist’s basic innovative approaches, namely to the development of methods, didactic principles, rules of teaching, the provisions of the education system and school studies, etc. The authors of the article conclude that in modern conditions of modernizing, renewing the various segments of the Ukrainian education system according to the European requirements and criteria the idea of the creative, constructive and critical comprehension and reception of the unique and diverse pedagogical heritage of Jan Amos Komensky by specialists, theorists and practitioners remains relevant. Keywords: Jan Amos Komensky, “Great Didacticsˮ, scientific and pedagogical heritage, European cultural heritage.