Kubanova Т. V. The Prescient Potential of V. Sukhomlynsky’s Educational Journalism in the Context of the Authoritarian System (the 1960s)

DOI: 10.12958/EPS.4(159).Kubanova_T_V

Kubanova Т. V., Postgraduate Student, Department of Pedagogy, Luhans’k Taras Shevchenko National University.

Abstract
The article discusses the place and significance of V. Sukhomlynsky’s educational journalism for the development of humanism in the education of the Soviet Union in the 1960s.
The author of the article proves that V. Sukhomlynsky’s educational activity is characterized by two opposing stances: on the one hand, supporting the Soviet State policy and, on the other, serving as a counteraction to the authoritarian methods in education, to the concept of one-sided influence on the individual development, and to the inattention to human individuality. The analysis of V. Sukhomlynsky’s works, written and published in the 1960s, demonstrated that the school reality did not always correspond to the demands and requirements of the government and official pedagogy, as well as that even under the conditions of far-fetched and enforced ideological dogmas (where the system was the goal and the child was nothing, but a means of achieving the goal) it was possible to develop a humane personality. It is also emphasized that the Soviet government created conditions that were conducive to the realization of the humanistic ideas in the sphere of education.
Sukhomlynsky’s works in educational journalism could be an integrating element between pedagogical practice and science, but for which the existence and development of the humanistic ideas in education would have been impossible.

Key words: humanistic pedagogy, Soviet State, aesthetic education.

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