The Ukrainian schooling of students in Vasyl′ Pachovs′kyi’s conception

Abstract

This article examines the vision of the Ukrainian education at schools in Eastern Galicia on the first third of the 20th-century timeline by Dr. Vasylʹ Pachovsʹkyi, who introduced his pedagogical ideas at the 1935 First Ukrainian Pedagogical Congress in Lviv. Pachovsʹkyi, a poet, scholar, and educator with more than 25 years of experience, believed that subjects in the Ukrainian language and literature, history, art, music, and geography should form the foundation of Ukrainian studies. According to him, the Ukrainian generation had to be educated by a school in which the Ukrainian national spirit is formed and Ukrainian is the language of instruction. The paper analyzes the linguistic peculiarities of Pachovsʹkyi’s report, in particular its lexical peculiarities, and outlines other linguistic means characteristic of Pachovsʹkyi’s idiolect. Similar to other participants of the First Ukrainian Pedagogical Congress in Lviv in 1935, Pachovsʹkyi advanced theoretical and methodological principles of Galician schooling and defined a strategy regarding organization and implementation of the native Ukrainian language in education. A goal of the intelligentsia in the late 20th — early 21st century, as well as the late 19th —early 20th century, was to shape public opinion as to how significant the enlightenment and education are and to attain the people’s spiritual growth. The promoting of critical thinking skills was/is to help keep building the Ukrainian state as an integral body based on Christian morality, promote the Ukrainian nation, capable of preserving and increasing cultural and material wealth and developing its own political life, economy, and social welfare so that Ukrainian citizens feelcomfortable to introduce their Ukrainian identity. Keywords: Ukrainian studies, native (Ukrainian) language, Vasylʹ Pachovsʹkyi, 1935 Pedagogical Congress, intelligentsia, national values, schooling