N. Y. VOLOSHYNA AS THE FOUNDER OF A SCIENTIFIC SCHOOL IN THE METHODOLOGY OF TEACHING UKRAINIAN LITERATURE

Abstract

The article is dedicated to honoring Nila Y. Voloshyna on the occasion of the 80th anniversary as the memory of Doctor of Pedagogical Sciences, Professor, Corresponding Member of the National Academy of Educational Sciences of Ukraine, Honored Scientist and Technician of Ukraine. The issue of the role of the scientist-methodologist as the sponsor of the scientific school, its contribution to the development of the national methodology of teaching Ukrainian literature in the institutions of general secondary and higher pedagogical education is actualized. The basic approaches to the definition of the term «scientific school» are presented, its generalized interpretation in basic science is presented, and the basic functions of scientific schools are characterized. The essential features of the concepts «scientific school in the methodology of literature», «scientific school by N.Y. Voloshyna» are distinguished. The scientific and methodological achievements of professor Voloshyna have been analyzed and became the theoretical basis for the creation of a scientific school in subject methodology. The author emphasizes the importance of the researcher's contribution to the development of the conceptual paradigm of school literary education in Ukraine, the development of scientific foundations for the teaching methodology of Ukrainian literature in the institutions of general secondary education, the definition of conceptual positions of school textbooks, an in-depth study of the problem of aesthetic teaching student-reader, the practical importance of the prepared educational and methodological support of the school course of Ukrainian literature. The concepts of Nila Y. Voloshyna scientific school, which are interpreted and outlined as the preservation of scientific traditions and creative realization of the progressive ideas of the scientist-methodologist in the realities of modern school literary education; the creation of content development and effective technologies of teaching Ukrainian literature in school taking into account the latest achievements of literary studies, pedagogy, age and pedagogical psychology, philosophy of education, cultural studies; the creation and introduction in the modern educational process of innovative methods, which involve the consideration of literary work as an artistic phenomenon, understanding of Ukrainian literature as a component of world artistic culture, the organization of productive educational activities in the Ukrainian literature lesson in order to form a competent student-reader, personality with an innovative type of thinking.