Vasyl Sukhomlynskyi's Ideas on a Child’s Spiritual Needs in Reading in View of the New Challenges and Realities: Based on the Book ’I Give My Heart to Children’

- Березівська, Лариса Дмитрівна (orcid.org/0000-0002-5068-5234) (2023) Vasyl Sukhomlynskyi's Ideas on a Child’s Spiritual Needs in Reading in View of the New Challenges and Realities: Based on the Book ’I Give My Heart to Children’ Науково-педагогічні студії. pp. 9-25. ISSN 2663-5739

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Abstract

Based on the analysis of the book ’I Give My Heart to Children’, the article highlights the ideas of the Ukrainian educator V. O. Sukhomlynskyi (1918–1970) about the importance of reading for a child's mental, spiritual, aesthetic and emotional development. The scientist's considerations about the need to foster in pupils the love to books, reading and the native language have been revealed. It has been argumented that reading should become a spiritual need of a child, a teenager, a person for life – that is, a life strategy. The leading role in this process should be played by teachers and librarians in close contact with parents. It has been found out that Sukhomlynskyi's ideas, if ideological stratifications are set aside, are consistent with the declared provisions of the Reading Development Strategy for the period till 2032 ’Reading as a Life Strategy’. In particular, regarding the popularization of reading as a factor in the development of critical thinking and a tool for achieving success in education and life. It has been found out that the forms and methods developed and tested by the teacher in the educational process of Pavlyska secondary school can be actualized during the construction of the New Ukrainian School for fostering the schoolchildren's need for reading. But nowadays, in contrast to soviet education as a component of the totalitarian system, we have to instill a steady interest and need in reading Ukrainian books. For this purpose, it is necessary to replenish the funds of school libraries in accordance with modern curricula, that is, to de-sovietize and de-russify them, to cleanse them of the totalitarian heritage. Nowadays, a school library should become a safe area for the Ukrainian pupil. The book ’I Give My Heart to Children’ is a source of research on a historical and educational problem: how the sprouts of humanism and child-centrism made their way in the totalitarian conditions of the soviet reality and how the soviet ideology in general, under the guise of humanizing education and through reading the book in particular, dehumanized the upbringing and education of the Ukrainian child, i.e. imposed a ’great Russian culture’, communist symbols (a tie, a Leninist, a pioneer, etc.) with the aim of forming a citizen of a totalitarian state. The ideas of V. O. Sukhomlynskyi in a comparative aspect with the considerations of famous Ukrainian educators (B. D. Hrinchenko, S. F. Rusova, Ya. F. Chepiha, etc.) about the importance of the need to read Ukrainian books for the development of a child as a future citizen of Ukraine.

Item Type:	Article
Keywords:	Vasyl Sukhomlynskyi, child and reading, school and library, book "I Give My Heart to Children", reading development strategy, Ukrainian book
Subjects:	Science and knowledge. Organization. Computer science. Information. Documentation. Librarianship. Institutions. Publications > 3 Social Sciences > 37 Education > 37.01/.09 Special auxiliary table for theory, principles, methods and organization of education > 37.01 Fundamentals of education. Theory. Policy etc. Science and knowledge. Organization. Computer science. Information. Documentation. Librarianship. Institutions. Publications > 3 Social Sciences > 37 Education > 37.01/.09 Special auxiliary table for theory, principles, methods and organization of education > 37.04 Education in relation to the educand, pupil. Guidance Science and knowledge. Organization. Computer science. Information. Documentation. Librarianship. Institutions. Publications > 3 Social Sciences > 37 Education > 373 Kinds of school providing general education
Divisions:	V. Sukhomlynskyi State Scientific and Pedagogical Library of Ukraine > Department of Pedagogical Source Studies and Biographistics
Depositing User:	н.с. Х.В. Середа
Date Deposited:	08 Dec 2023 13:13
Last Modified:	08 Dec 2023 13:13
URI:	https://lib.iitta.gov.ua/id/eprint/738220

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