METHODOLOGICAL ASPECTS OF CHILD-CENTRIC PRINCIPLE IN THE PEDAGOGICAL SYSTEM OF VASYL SUKHOMLYNSKYI

• Інна Ящук

  Хмельницька гуманітарно-педагогічна академія

The article deals with the methodical aspects of child-centric principle in the pedagogical system of Vasyl Sukhomlynskyi. The peculiarities of the didactic aspect of child-centric principle are considered as the unity of the following pedagogical phenomena: teaching as a system of activity in order to create conditions for students’ educational and their cognitive activity; learning as a purposeful, motivated, self-regulating, transformative activity to master, transform, preserve and apply the system of knowledge, in the result of which the development and upbringing of the individual takes place; self-development of the participants in the leaning process as an active, consistent, progressive and irreversible change in the socio- psychological status of the individual of the student in the process of learning through the need for self-improvement.

It is found out that child-centric principle at Pavlysh school was realized on the basis of the teacher’s knowledge of the personality of each student, the motivation of leaning, the support of his primary desire to learn; formation of knowledge which are necessary for self-realization in society; orientation to the development of the individual characteristics of each child, contributing to his or her personal growth and successful self-realization in society; pedagogy of partnership between all participants of the educational process.

The peculiarities of the educational aspect of child-centric principle are revealed, which is to organize extracurricular and self-educational activities, consisting in the organization of extracurricular and self-educational activities, aimed at harmonious integration of interests of all participants in the educational process: a student who seeks free self-development and the preservation of his personality; school whose strategic goal is to provide students with knowledge that will contribute to their successful implementation in society; a society whose efforts are directed at the moral self-development of the individual; a state that is interested in making children a worthy citizen of their own country.

The reform of modern education being aimed at creative transformation of the personality, her self-realization and self-development, the potential of Vasyl Sukhomlynskyi’s innovative and pedagogical system is obvious, which fully reveals the effectiveness of the implementation child-centric principle into the modern-day educational process.

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