Meleschenko A. Jewish schooling in the structure of education of Volyn (end of ХVІІІ - beginning of ХХ century)

The thesis lays the theoretical foundations for the study of the history of the national Jewish primary education and reviews the current state of the problem. Based on the analysis of archival sources, historical and pedagogical literature, Jewish schooling in the structure of education in Volyn within the period of study is outlined. The social, economic and political factors of Jewish education in Volyn are identified; the major areas and stages of the development of state and public institutions in Volyn province in the late nineteenth - early twentieth centuries that influenced the formation of the Jewish school system are specified and researched; the types and the network of Jewish educational institutions of the region where Jews could study were descrided; the characteristics of teacher training for Jewish educational institutions were analysed; their role in the development of education and culture in Volyn was defined. The systematic analysis of the structure and content of the educational process in Jewish educational institutions was undertaken. Generalized positive historical experience of becoming and development of Jewish shkilnictva in schools of national minorities, that can be used in the modern system of formation of Ukraine.