Donchenko O. The Problem of Aesthetic Education of Pre-school children in the Pedagogical Conception of Ukraine (end of the 19th - beginning of the 20th centuries)

The object is the aesthetic education of children of pre-school age within the period under research. The goal is to identify and systemise the theoretical ideas for the education of children of pre-school age; generalise the experience of aesthetic education at Ukraine's pre-school educational institutions from the beginning of the 19th century to the end of the 20th century; determine the prospects of using the positive past experience in modern conditions. The methods are historical-logical, theoretical, comparative, and retrospective. The novelty is the first integral historical-pedagogical research into the problems relating to the development of the education of children of pre-school age within a specific historical period. The results are the identification of the progressive ideas and the generalisation of the positive experience of aesthetic education of pre-school children in Ukraine within the period under research; and the publication of the teaching and methodological recommendations forteachers and students of pedagogical educational institutions. The area is general pedagogics and history of pedagogics.