THE FORMATION OF THE CHRISTIAN OUTLOOK OF THE STUDENT YOUTH IN VOLHYNIA PROVINCE (19th ‒ early 20th century)

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KARPENKO Oresta – PhD hab. (Education), Associate Professor, Professor of General Pedagogy and Preschool Education Department, Drohobych Ivan Franko State Pedagogical University, 24 Ivan Franko Str., Drohobych, 82100, UkraineE-mail address: ochepil@gmail.com ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1841-882X ResearcherID: https://publons.com/researcher/2354981/oresta-karpenko/To cite this article: Karpenko, O. (2020). The formation of the Christian outlook of the student youth in Volhynia province (19th ‒ early 20th century). Human Studies. Series of Pedagogy, 10/42, 113‒121. doi: https://doi.org/10.24919/2413-2039.10/42.198829 Article historyReceived: February 5, 2020Received in revised form: March 6, 2020 Accepted: March 11, 2020Available online: April 28, 2020Journal homepage:http://lssp.dspu.edu.ua/p-ISSN 2313-2094e-ISSN 2413-2039© 2020 The Author. Human studies. Series of Pedagogy published by Drohobych Ivan Franko State Pedagogical University & Open Journal Systems. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/). The article examines the main aspects of children and young people upbringing in the Christian spirit in the Volhynia province. The author analyzed a lot of archival documents. It is explained that in the schools of that region schoolchildren studied the Scripture, children were involved in church worship, pursued Christian education activities. It is substantiated that representatives of public associations and religious fraternities were involved in the education of children and young people. The role of the representatives of the Volhynian clergy in the formation of the Christian outlook of the young generation was investigated. It is explained that many scientists have studied the problem of religious education. The author analyzed in detail the works of G. Yermak, G. Kotlomanitova, I. Myshchyshyn. It has been found that the primary purpose of the spiritual institutions of the past was to form a special type of thinking ‒ the sacred one. The upbringing of children in Christian morality in Ukraine goes back to the times of Kievan Rus when in 988 Prince Vladimir proclaimed Christianity the main religion of the state. It gave a great impetus to the development of education, sciences and arts. In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries when the Volhynia province became a part of the Russian state the religious education, and therefore up-bringing in the spirit of Christianity, continued to develop. Orthodoxy was the main religion in the Volhynia province. The religious education was provided in class and after school. The younger generation read the Bible and books on moral and ethical topics. Students’ books had texts about compassion, charity, love and tolerance. The children sang in the church choir. The church fraternity representatives opened elementary schools and Sunday schools, held moral conversations. The largest church organizations were in Lutsk, Kremenets, and Ostroh. The Christian education is in tune with the modern humanistic orientation of the education. So the principal ways of introducing the Orthodox pedagogy into the modern educational institutions are determined in the article.Acknowledgments. The author is grateful to the staff of the Vernadsky National Library of Ukraine.Funding. The author received no financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article.