Історія становлення освіти жінок у Галичині: відомі постаті

Abstract

The role of women in education is important and multifaceted. Women represent the majority of teachers, lecturers and professors in schools, higher education institutions and other educational establishments. They also have a key role in raising and educating children at home. The education of women has a positive impact on the development of the society and culture. Educated women tend to be more active citizens, participating in the political processes, cultural life, and community development. Furthermore, they are more responsible mothers, providing their children with proper education. In the context of the historical development of Galicia and Ukraine, this research contributes to a better understanding of the role of women in the development of the society, the education system, and the women’s movement in the early twentieth century. Historical studies on the activity of various women’s institutions in Ukraine became a valuable source for our research. Among the authors of these studies, the names of V. Aleksandrovych, H. Aleksandrovsky, N. Zhebylev, M. Zakharchenko and others should be noted. In the vast majority of cases, this group of authors had a certain degree of subjectivity in the interpretation of events in their essays. This phenomenon is explained primarily by the fact that they were, as a rule, teachers of the same institutions they were writing about. Among modern academic studies, it is worth noting the works of M. Polishchuk and her dissertation thesis «Primary and secondary education in the Right-Bank Ukraine in the 60–70s of the 19th century», L. Prymenko, author of «Issues of the women’s education in national education systems of Ukraine and France (18th – the first quarter of the 20th century)», T. Sukhenko, author of the study «Secondary women’s education in Ukraine», and T. Yakovyshyna, who researched «The organization of pedagogical interaction in women’s secondary institutions in Volyn as a condition for the social formation of women in the second half of the 19th – at the beginning of the 20th century». Keywords: Maria-Ivanna Hrushevska, Kateryna Hrushevska, Nataliia Kobrynska, Olena Stepaniv, Oksana Sukhoverkha, contributions to education, the women’s movement, culture.