Олександр Григорович Дзеверін (1908–1978): штрихи до наукового портрета

Abstract

The article emphasizes the importance of rethinking the Soviet past, in particular through the study of the life and creative heritage of pedagogical personalities of that time. A biography of the historian of pedagogy Oleksandr Dzeverin has been presented, his contribution to pedagogical science has been outlined by covering the scientific interests of the scientist during his work at the Ukrainian Research Institute of Pedagogy, where he studied, besides the history of pedagogy, the issue of productive work of high school students and theoretical justification for the introduction of polytechnic education at a secondary school during 1930-1970. It has been noted that the first scientific publication of O. Dzeverin dates back to 1932, when the USSR launched a forced attack on the humanities and began reforming education and pedagogy according to Soviet canons, and the history of pedagogy was to provide a theoretical basis for the Soviet model of education, to find its historical roots. It has been proven that the theme of the leading role of the Communist Party in the development of pedagogical science is pervasive in the works of the scientist of the 1930s and 1950s; the periodization of the history of pedagogy in Soviet Ukraine in the vision of O. Dzeverin has been presented. It has been emphasized that with the beginning of the “thaw” and de-Stalinization since the second half of the 1950s, his research field included the creative heritage of prominent Ukrainian teachers of the past. The article contains a bibliography of O. Dzeverin's works compiled from 37 positions by the author. Based on the bibliography and analysis of several teacher’s works, there has been made a conclusion about the evolution of the educator’s pedagogical worldview from covering the role of the Communist Party and Lenin in the development of pedagogical science and schooling to his interest in the pedagogical heritage of Tymofiy Lubents, Ivan Franko, Hryhoriy Skovoroda, Khrystyna Alchevska and the publication of Vasyl Sukhomlynskyi's works in five volumes (Kyiv, 1976–1977), in which O. Dzeverin played a key role as the head of the editorial board and the author of an extensive introductory article.