ORGANISATIONAL FORMS OF DEVELOPMENT OF PSYCHOTECHNICAL IDEAS IN UKRAINE IN THE 1920 – THE FIRST HALF OF THE 1930

Abstract

The purpose of the article is to conduct a comprehensive analysis of the organisational forms of psychotechnics development in Ukrainian education in the 1920s and the first half of the 1930s.

Research methodology. The study is based on an analysis of historical and pedagogical sources related to the development of psychotechnics, namely the works of Ukrainian and foreign scholars F. Dunaevsky, E. Klapered, O. Lipman, A. Mandryka, I. Shpilren and others. The works of contemporary Ukrainian scholars were also used in the writing of this article. A hermeneutic approach was used to conduct an objective analysis of the sources and literature outlined.

The scientific novelty of the study lies in the characterisation of the school and institutional forms of development of psychotechnics ideas in Ukrainian education. For the first time, psychotechnical research in Ukrainian schools in the 1920s and the first half of the 1930s and the psychotechnical activities of the Ukrainian Institute of Labour and the Ukrainian Research Institute of Pedagogy are presented in a generalised form.

Conclusions. In the 1920s and early 1930s, the ideas of psychotechnics – a psychological and pedagogical scientific and practical field whose tasks were professional orientation and professional selection of children and young people – were widespread in Ukrainian education and society. Psychotechnical research was carried out in schools and in the course of the activities of the Ukrainian Institute of Labour and the Ukrainian Scientific Research Institute of Pedagogy. After 1936, psychotechnics was banned in Soviet education due to changes in the state: the establishment of a totalitarian regime and the spread of repression.

Scientific research devoted to the content of psychotechnical studies and the identification of opportunities for using psychotechnical ideas in modern education is promising.