ARCHIVAL SOURCES ON PEDAGOGICAL TRAINING OF TEACHERS OF HIGHER TECHNICAL EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS OF THE UKRAINIAN SOVIET SOCIALIST REPUBLIC

Abstract

The purpose of the article is to conduct a source analysis of archival documents of the State Archives of the Dnipropetrovsk region in order to determine their information capabilities for historical and pedagogical research. The use of historical and logical methods in the course of the study allowed us to move away from everything secondary and to distinguish the essential characteristics of the process under consideration. The application of the system method, in combination with the principle of comprehensiveness and complexity, made it possible to identify general and specific aspects of the studied archival funds, taking into account their place in the structure of the State Archives of the Dnipropetrovsk region and identify multifaceted links with other archival funds. The method of functional analysis in combination with the principle of origin provided the identification of the relationship between the functions of fundraisers and documentary information of the funds formed by them. Analyzed archival documents indicate the importance of using archival sources in historical and pedagogical research. The author claims that archival documents allow to “reconstruct” the historical environment, analyze causal links, determine the influence of party-state structures on the activities of higher educational institutions, and understand not only the level of training of scientific and pedagogical staff but also the ratio of disciplines and teachers of humanities and technical fields. Thus, the source analysis of archival documents of the State Archives of Dnipropetrovsk region helped to identify the main trends that accompanied the process of pedagogical training teachers of higher technical educational institutions of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic.
 Keywords: professional and pedagogical training; scientific and pedagogical activity; higher technical educational institution; technical institution of higher education; archival source; historical and pedagogical research; source analysis; source base.