CULTURAL AND HISTORICAL DISCOURSE OF UKRAINIAN FOLKLORE DEVELOPMENT IN CLASSICAL UNIVERSITIES IN THE SECOND HALF OF THE XIX CENTURY

Abstract

The article analyzes the achievements of Ukrainian folkloristic, taking into account the cultural and historical factors of its progress in the second half of the nineteenth century, and outlines the contribution of classical universities teachers in the educational practice of folklore tradition studying. The valuable experience of classical universities teachers in the implementation of folkloristic directed courses, the organization of research work of students, and more are presented, etc. A significant event for the formation of studying folk literature educational practice traditions was the founding of the Department of Russian (Ukrainian) Literature at the University of Jan Casimir in 1848. There were identified the following cultural and historical factors that contributed to the process of studying folkloristic (folk literature) in the classical universities: initiatives of student youth on the establishment of Ukrainian studies departments, teaching in Ukrainian; activities of societies, public organizations, institutions established at classical universities, students' societies, the foundation of periodicals. University teachers were introducing elements of folk literature into the content of linguistic and literary disciplines, working out the folkloristic courses programs, promoting research, collecting activities of future professionals, directing educational work with students, following the contextual, functional, multicultural approaches to the study of folk literature, Ukrainian ethnic group traditional culture, Slavonic peoples, applying interdisciplinary links, methodological principles of other emerging sciences, namely, ethnography, ethnology, historiography, linguistics, literary studies.
 Achievements of studying the folk literature theory and practice in the XIX century led to the development of Ukrainian folkloristic, assertion of methodological principles of scientific-folkloristic schools, emergence of future philologists and historians' folkloristic training system, and the foundation of folkloristic areas (textology, linguofolkloristic, source studies, ethnomusicology, etc.).