UKRAINIAN FOLK PEDAGOGY ON THE PAGES OF “YOUNG UKRAINE” MAGAZINE

Abstract

The article analyzes the magazine “Young Ukraine” (1908) to study the experience of Olena Pchilka in raising children by means of folk pedagogy and selection of literary works that provide content with such components as naturalness, cultural conformity, ethnicity education, and labor education.Prominent teachers, writers, public figures, and philosophers (J. Comenius, J. Pestalozzi, G. Skovoroda, V. Sukhomlynskyi, K. Ushynskyi) paid great attention to the need to study, researchб and use the achievements of folk pedagogy in the process of education.Among modern domestic researchers, the works of V. Honcharuk, N. Demyanenko, O. Dukhnovych, M. Yevtukh, L. Yovenko, V. Kalabska, V. Kyrychenko, Y. Kosenko, V. Kuzya, A. Kuzminsky are devoted to these issues. A. Marushevych, V. Omelchenko, Y. Rudenko, O. Sanivsky, N. Syvachuk, M. Stelmakhovych, I. Tereshko, O. Tsyganok and others.That is why prominent Ukrainian writers, educators, public, and cultural figures stressed the need to educate young people on a national basis.For this purpose, the editor published in the issues of the magazine her own works, works of prominent Ukrainian writers: Lesya Ukrainka, T. Shevchenko, V. Vilinska, B. Hrinchenko. Quite often she wrote poems, fairy tales, short stories, and translated works by O. Wilde, R. Kipling and others. She constantly published folklore works: riddles, lullabies, toys, and fairy tales.A careful analysis of the magazine “Young Ukraine” (1908) suggests that as the basis for the selection of printed works editor Olena Pchilka systematically used the basic ideas of public education, caring for the education of readers on national soil, and affirming the ideas of leading teachers of the time children should be taught in the national language, using the best of folk pedagogy.
 Keywords: Olena Pchilka; “Young Ukraine”; nationality of education; folk pedagogy; conformity to nature; cultural conformity; ethnicity of education; labor education.