PROBLEMS OF THE FORMATION OF SOCIAL-PEDAGOGICAL GOAL-SETTING IN THE CONTEXT OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF PUBLIC EDUCATION IN KRAINE (SECOND HALF OF THE XIX – EARLY XX CENTURIES)

Abstract

The modern domestic education system needs a reform, the essence of which should be its constructive modernization and targeted improvement of its quality. This is dictated by the exposure of the Ukrainian state to the world level of science and technology, formation of a new type of public relations, as well as the time itself. Given that the school must always fulfill social demands of society, there is a problem of developing a new goal of national education and, accordingly, the formation of a new concept of pedagogical goal- setting for the broad social strata of the population. To prevent errors in this process the author of the article relies on historical experience. The article reveals the main problems of pedagogical and social goal-setting in the context of public education development in Ukraine in the second half of the XIX - early XX centuries; the concept of goal-setting in social and pedagogical aspects is clarified; the conditions that contributed to the General idea of the need for public school are analyzed along with the analysis of the main bills and regulations of the Ministry of public education of the Russian Empire, starting with the basic provisions "on public education" 1767-1864 years; the role of public organizations, particularly local governments as Zemstvo, reflected the formation of a system of goals in pedagogical and social aspects for public education in Ukraine of the selected period. In the course of the study, the author comes to the conclusion that as a result of the Russian Empire influence during this period, the development of public education in Ukraine did not have constant positive dynamics. This had a certain impact on the nature of pedagogical and social targeting in the state. However, despite the strict government policy aimed at russification of the Ukrainian people, opposition from the Church and the Holy Synod, under-funded public schools by the Ministry of education, socio-educational targeting of Ukraine gradually became characterized by democratization and humanization of education, a lot of focus and flexibility, and most importantly, education began to acquire secular nature.