CIVIC AND HISTORICAL EDUCATION INDUSTRY IN THE CONDITIONS OF SOCIAL TRANSFORMATIONS OF THE 20th – 21st CENTURIES

Abstract

The article analyzes the stages and paradigms of the transformation of the social science educational branch in Ukraine (civic and historical educational branches). The directions and further prospects for the study of the outlined issues are determined. The peculiarity of the civic and historical educational branch is that its reform began perhaps the earliest of all other educational branches. The year of the “great turning point” for the social science educational branch, as it was called before the introduction of the New Ukrainian School program, was 1991. The restoration of Ukrainian statehood immediately affected the paradigm of changes in teaching the history of Ukraine by the transition to the principle of Ukrainian-centrism. The main task of this educational branch was to educate a citizen-patriot of the restored Ukrainian state. The civic and historical educational branch went through several stages of reform during the transformation of Ukrainian education in the 20th – 21st centuries. At the present stage, these tasks have not changed; they must be improved and modernized, because they are of great importance for Ukraine at the present stage of state formation, when the solution of the “Ukrainian question” is more relevant than ever for the whole world. At the present stage of the development of Ukrainian pedagogy, the goal of the civic and historical educational field is the development of the student’s personality through understanding the past, present and the connections between them, the interaction between global, all-Ukrainian and local processes; the formation of the identity of a citizen of Ukraine, his active civic position on the principles of democracy, patriotism, respect for human rights and freedoms, recognition of the value of the rule of law and intolerance to corruption. In the conditions of an informational, post-industrial society, the emergence of a new generation of visuals with a kind of clip thinking, Ukrainian historical education has undergone qualitative changes related to the challenges of today: the Covid pandemic, which led to the transition to distance and blended learning, the Russian-Ukrainian war. The forms and methods of teaching have changed, but the tasks and goals of historical education have remained constant: educating generations of Ukrainian patriots. The experience of previous generations has been taken into account by their students: educators and scientists who were formed in the conditions of independent Ukraine.