ORIGINS AND HISTORICAL AND PEDAGOGICAL TRADITIONS OF STUDENT SELF-GOVERNANCE IN UKRAINE

Abstract

The purpose of the article is to analyse the peculiarities of the development of student self-government in the history of education in Ukraine.

Methodology. The research was conducted based on the principles of scientificity, objectivity, systematicity, and determinism, which made it possible to highlight the essential changes in the phenomenon of student self-government that took place in the history of higher education. The paradigmatic-pedagogical approach used in the study ensured the consideration of ideas for the development of student self-government from the perspective of pedagogical science, namely: its dynamic progress, the formation of different points of view on student self-government in the theory and practice of education. The sociocultural approach made it possible to show higher education and student self-government as part of social processes and culture, and to highlight the connection between them.

Scientific novelty. The article identifies the origins of student self-government, which are attributed to the activities of the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy and the Chernihiv, Kharkiv and Pereiaslav collegiums. They existed in such forms as bursaries, regional associations, congregations, school theatres, and inspector positions. The historical and pedagogical traditions of the development of student self-government continued in the 19th–20th centuries. A periodisation of the development of student self-government in Ukraine in the 19th–early 21th centuries has been developed.

Conclusions. The origins of student self-government in Ukraine date back to the 17th–18th centuries, the time of the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy and the Chernihiv, Kharkiv and Pereiaslav collegiums. The historical and pedagogical traditions of the creation and activity of student self-government were formed in the 19th–20th centuries. The modern form of student self-government was formed through a combination of educational traditions, the liberation movement and democratic transformations of the late 20th century.

A promising direction for further scientific research is the study of foreign experience in the functioning of student self-government bodies.