EDUCATIONAL WORK WITH HOMELESS CHILDREN OF THE DNEPROPETROVSK REGION IN THE CONTEXT OF THE CHILDREN'S MOVEMENT OF THE 20S XX CENTURY

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Keywords:

Dnipropetrovsk region, children’s movement, street children, educational process, pioneer organization

Abstract

In the article the author analyzes the educational work of children's movement concerning the homeless children of the twenties of the XX-th century in Dnepropetrovsk region, which consisted of purposeful and consecutive activity. It is noted that today there is a significant number of problems in the upbringing of the younger generation and the very return to our historical past, the implementation of an objective analysis of the works of pedagogical theorists will give us the opportunity to improve the modern educational process within the state educational policy. An important place in the educational work with the homeless took the pioneer organization, as it became a unified children's unit, which corresponded to the interests of the party power of that time. We consider that the educational influence of the mentioned society concerning the street children was considerable, because the positive example and pioneers' work helped to put street children on the right way, to attach them to the collective of conscious and organized fellows – builders of communism, the future young generation.
Purpose of the article: to analyze the educational work of the children's movement with the homeless children of the Dnipropetrovsk region in the 20s.
Methodology: concrete-search and scientific-historical methods.
The scientific novelty of the research consists in the fact that the first theoretical analysis of educational work with the street children of the Dnipropetrovsk region in the context of the children's movement of the 20s. XX century on the basis of the regional archival periodicals, which provided an opportunity to study thoroughly and trace its further impact on the history of education in Ukraine.
Conclusions. Educational work with street children in Dnepropetrovsk region in the 20s of XX century was carried out with the help of highly organized, disciplined children's movement. It became a peculiar socio-pedagogical phenomenon, which absorbed the best features of education of a «new man», loyal to the party and its ideals. From this it emerges that the children's movement in the marked period, by carrying out extensive agitation, cultural and educational work, played a significant role in the upbringing of children who, due to certain circumstances, began to live on the streets. With his participation, children not only received a new family, but fundamentally changed their lives, became full of new hopes and aspirations.

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Published

2023-02-01