METHODOLOGICAL HERITAGE OF VASYL SUKHOMLYNSKYI: THROUGH HISTORICAL AND PEDAGOGICAL COGNITION TO SEARCHING ANSWERS ON CURRENT CHALLENGES

• Ольга Василівна Сухомлинська

  ДНПБ України ім. В.О.Сухомлинського

In the presented article the methodical system of V. Sukhomlynsky’s is considered through the prism of recent history of pedagogy and modern approaches to the development of methodological problems in order to get a deeper understanding of the problem in the context of updating the issues of organizing the activities of the subjects of the educational process in the institutions of secondary schools. The methodological heritage of the teacher as an important component of his holistic system of views on education and upbringing of children and youth is highlighted. In has been carried out historiographic analysis of the recent works of researchers who studied the methodological heritage of the teacher and on this basis, a special contribution of V. Sukhomlynskyi to the development of teaching methods in elementary grades, methods of Ukrainian literature and linguodidactics was revealed. It is disclosed the special contribution of the teacher to the development of the methodology of education, which is characterized by the combination of two methods – education and upbringing - into a single integral whole, that embodied in innovative forms of activity created by him, aimed at the development of children, which were fundamentally different from the approaches and forms of organization of the educational process existing at that time (school of joy, lessons of thinking, lessons of creativity, intellectual background of school, humanization of knowledge, joy of knowledge, harmony of pedagogical influences, etc.).In addition to the historiography of materials on the methodological heritage of the teacher, the article also explores the little researched problem - analysis of lessons attended by Sukhomlynskyi at school where he worked,
as well as materials from a partially unpublished manuscript, which expand and deepen knowledge about Sukhomlynskyi as a methodologist.It was found that the methodological heritage of the teacher,
which contains both educational and educational component, is a holistic methodological approach to pedagogical processes, occurring in educational institutions, and is most responsive to the latest trends in education.It is concluded, that modern education reform as the implementation of the ideas and provisions of the New Ukrainian School, contributes to a wider familiarization with the creative achievements of the teacher and creates the preconditions for considering the methodological ideas of V. Sukhomlynskyi as components of the development of modern education in Ukraine.Through historical and pedagogical cognition and rethinking it is introduced fruitful ideas, forms and methods of organizing the educational process contributing to the affirmation of the view of V. Sukhomlinsky as a harbinger of the reform processes in education, the reformer of pedagogy.

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