THE ROADS OF BORYS HRINCHENKO - JOURNALIST: FROM «KAHANETS» TO «UKRAINIAN PEDAGOGICAL JOURNAL»

Abstract

The article describes manuscripts of the «Kaganets» journal and the «Tsutsyk» newspaper by Borys Hrinchenko. Their search was based on his autobiography (1898) and his father's memoirs. Its shows the author ’s desire to publish Ukrainian language press. The presentation of manuscripts «Tsutsyk» and «Kahanets» was reported. It was carried out during an interactive tour in the Museum of Borys Hrinchenko. They used an arsenal of traditional and innovative methods for cooperation with students from University College. For example, authoring characteristics of publications, reading dialogues by roles, comparative analysis of artistic texts. Students' achievements were evaluated according to practical criteria. In order to form the ability of excursionists to determine the successful or unsuccessful title of editions «Tsutsyk» and «Kahanets», used the technique of working with "Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language" by Borys Hrinchenko and the manuscript. The analysis of answers convinced that titles are appropriate: 39% of respondents consider them successful, 2.6% very successful. Methodical techniques for forming students' ability to identify literary genres of the newspaper «Tsutsyk» and the magazine «Kaganets» are offered: work with scientific-reference literature, work in microgroups with photocopies. So 59.8% of young researchers correctly identified the literary genres of artistic texts. The excursionists found pen names of young Hrinchenko: Pirat, Administrator. The students' interest in manuscripts «Tsutsyk» and «Kahanets» was investigated. 42.1% of the respondents consider them interesting for reading, 33.8% – for acquaintance with younger family members, 33.8% – for dissemination among school children, 31.2% - for imitation. Thus, 31.2% of students reported that were trying to create their own publication, with 18.2% of students – paper publications, and 13% – electronic ones. The results of manuscripts review are generalized in visual support. On the common part: 1) handwritten format, 2) paper version; in the former – available for review in the Grinchenko’s archive, in the future – open for reading in online format. As we can see, the light of knowledge dissemination, lit by Hrinchenko's «Kahanets», has become more powerful thanks to the publication of the «Ukrainian Pedagogical Journal» more than a century ago.