Art education in Ukraine from 1920s to 1991: example of formal and non-formal literary education

Abstract

The article presents the results of the retrospective analysis of the art education development on the Ukrainian territory in the period from 20-s of ХХ century to the independence time – 1991year on examples of literary education. There is offered the new approach to the study of the process of functioning of the native art education that is in separation of its formal and informal signs. Taking them into account allowed to characterize literary education of the aforesaid period as notable for convergence of formal and informal types. There was noted, that the net of educational institutions, where the controlled formal education, acknowledged by the state was given, was widened in the Ukrainian Soviet Socialistic Republic for attaining political tasks by means of literary art. It was indicated, that the wide net of libraries was created for proletarian propaganda among the population, and temporal and permanent educational-cultural communities, sections, characterized by informal sings, were created. It was underlined that literary associations, unions, underground groups, that realized national-directed art-educational activity by literary meetings, distribution of prohibited literature and critical papers functioned at the Ukrainian territory as opposite to organizations, created by the state. It was determined, that in the period of 20-s of ХХ century to 1991the tendency of interconnection and mutual penetration of formal and informal literary education can be traced