HISTORIOGRAPHY OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF POSTGRADUATE EDUCATION OF PRIMARY SCHOOL TEACHERS IN WESTERN REGIONS OF UKRAINE (1945-1991)

Abstract

Education is an obvious reflection of all social processes, it is entrusted with the tasks of formation, development, spiritual self-affirmation of the human potential of the country. Primary education is the link of education in which the prerequisites for further personal development, the desire for knowledge, the generation of national consciousness and positive moral qualities of each citizen are laid. The most important resource of primary school is the pedagogical staff, who constantly perform different functions: teacher, educator, psychologist, mentor, researcher with all the professional requirements put forward to them by the state and society, which actualizes the significant need for their postgraduate education (purposeful professional growth, raising the level of professional qualification and skill). The need for continuing education of teachers is accompanied by the constant updating of the content of the educational process, the emergence of new pedagogical technologies, the systematic replenishment of scientific and methodological information and bridging the gap between the knowledge and experience of previous generations, which cannot be done without taking into account positive examples of educational development. Therefore, the article presents a historical and pedagogical analysis of scientific and practical achievements on the development of postgraduate education of primary school teachers in the western regions of Ukraine (1945-1991).