MODERN DISCOURSE OF THE HISTORY OF PEDAGOGICAL EXCELLENCE: FROM FRATERNAL SCHOOLS TO THE PRESENT

Abstract

The article considers the problems of significance of the formation of a new direction in the pedagogical science – the history of pedagogical skills in the Ukrainian fraternal schools of the 16th-17th century. A historical retrospective demonstrates the progress of pedagogical excellence as an attribute component of future teachers and mentors. The content of the history of pedagogical excellence in the scientific approaches of modern researchers of the theory and history of pedagogy – the scientific school of academician Ivan Zyazyn. The purpose of the article is to reveal the essence and specifics of the development of pedagogical skills of a teacher in fraternal schools of Ukraine in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. On the basis of logical-systemic and historiographical methods of historical-pedagogical research the organizational-pedagogical principles of teacher training on the principles of humanized and sensible pedagogy, professed by representatives of the scientific school of theory and history of pedagogical skills of Academician I. Zyazyun are shown. Certain organizational and pedagogical forms and methods of teacher training in fraternal schools of Ukraine of the XVI–XVII centuries, in particular aestheticization of the process of professional training, development of skills to influence the sensory sphere of students, should become a fundamental factor in modern professional training of future teachers. The history of pedagogical skills should become a guarantee of cultural and historical purpose in the context of the professional experience of its bearer, teacher, his educational potential in a variety of educational institutions; innovative technologies of creative mastering of pedagogical skills in higher pedagogical educational institutions by student youth – the successors of the spiritual heritage of their mentors.