EDUCATION OF PATRIOTIC AND CIVIC VALUES IN STUDENTS THROUGH THE LITERATURE OF WESTERN UKRAINE

Abstract

The article analyzes and characterizes the national idea, which is the basis of the upbringing and education of the individual (representatives are writers of Western Ukraine representing the state-building movement, children's writers, and writer-pedagogues). This idea is key in the work of the majority of Ukrainian writers of the western region, as well as in the creative journalistic and scientific heritage of public and educational figures, political and public activists, women and youth movement figures, religious figures of the UGCC, artists, and doctors who have directly contributed to the educational process in Western Ukraine of the studied period. They worked as teachers, edited magazines, published educational literature, compiled teaching aids, textbooks, methodological recommendations, educational projects, etc. They established themselves as publicists. Without creating special literary works, they conveyed pedagogical ideas to the general public through contributions to the periodicals of that time. It is noted that Ukrainian periodicals of Western Ukraine became a platform for the dissemination of educational ideas, a platform where pedagogical innovations were produced, current problems of education and upbringing were discussed, foreign experience was analyzed, etc. It is emphasized that this phenomenon, when the issues of education and training were actively discussed by teachers, writers, social activists, spiritual leaders, politicians, artists, etc., provoked such a phenomenon as the pedagogy of public life, when Ukrainians mobilized their efforts around the problem of national education of children and youth. Writers-pedagogues were at the forefront of this phenomenon. Writers-pedagogues and public figures of Western Ukraine of that period well understood that the establishment and development of a national school were impossible without resolving a number of issues in the field of education, the most important of which was the preparation of a new generation of Ukrainians.