The urgency and necessity of the research is due to the conceptual provisions of the National Doctrine of the Development of Education of Ukraine in the 21st Century. In today's conditions of development of Ukrainian society, there is a need for the formation of intellectual and cultural potential as the highest value of the nation, the development of humanitarian thinking, in-depth study, critical reflection and the creative use of the national spiritual achievement of the past to understand the latest phenomena and processes in the educational space. The identification of the peculiarities of solving educational and pedagogical problems, the reflection of the tendency and mechanisms of the versatile interaction of progressive theory and practice in order to pedagogy of society in Ukraine should be carried out on the basis of analysis of these processes in a separate region. The interest is South of Ukraine.
The study of the genesis of education, science and culture with the assistance of the intelligentsia in the south of Ukraine in the second half of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries is an important stage in the comprehensive study of education and training issues. The coexistence of religious, private, public education, and national education involved active educational activities of representatives of the German, Jewish, Greek, Russian, and Ukrainian intelligentsia of the South of Ukraine in the second half of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Object of research: educational and pedagogical activity of intelligentsia of the South of Ukraine. Subject of research: content, forms and methods of educational and pedagogical activity of representatives of the intellectuals of the South of Ukraine in the second half of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The purpose of the study is to reveal the content, forms and methods of educational and pedagogical activity of the intellectuals of the South of Ukraine in the second half of the XIX - the beginning of the XX century and to determine the perspective directions of using positive experience in the conditions of the Ukrainian present on the basis of the retrospective analysis.
The scientific novelty of the research results is that for the first time: on the basis of a holistic retrospective analysis, the development of educational and pedagogical activity of the intelligentsia in the educational space of the South of Ukraine in the second half of the XIX - early XX centuries was researched; the periodization of educational and pedagogical activity of the intelligentsia in the South of Ukraine was substantiated: the first stage - 1850 - 1869 years - the confessional worldview; II stage - 1870 - 1889 years - scientific and educational; III stage - 1890 - 1917 years - national-educational; the tendencies of educational and pedagogical activity of the intellectuals regarding the influence on education of the population of the studied period were revealed, namely: cultural and spiritual; pedagogical; medical; technical; commercially secular; characterizing the content (expanding the outlook of the younger generation in the areas of education, training and personal development, enriching the spiritual world, disseminating knowledge on the preservation and strengthening of health, preventing and preventing morbidity, presenting changes and innovations at the general discretion), forms (lectures, literary works - art and sanitary-hygienic measures involving famous people, charity points, fairs, professional courses, mutual assistance funds, scholarship and tuition fees, folk lectures, lectures e) and methods (conversations, recitation of poems, disputes, method of example, exercises, training, instruction, encouragement, explanation, demonstration of experiments using foggy pictures or shadow theater) of educational and pedagogical activity of the intelligentsia in the South of Ukraine in the second half of the nineteenth century - at the beginning The twentieth century.The essence of the concept «educational and pedagogical activity» is specified.
The practical significance of the work is that the special course «Educational and pedagogical activity of the intelligentsia in the South of Ukraine (the second half of the nineteenth and the beginning of the twentieth century)» was developed and introduced and the methodical recommendations «Educational and pedagogical activity of the intelligentsia in the educational environment of the South of Ukraine (second half of the XIX century) - the beginning of XX century) «regarding the introduction of a special course. The results of the research can be used for the holistic study of the educational development problem in the South of Ukraine in the history of pedagogical research.
Keywords: educational activity, educational and pedagogical activity, South of Ukraine, educational space, periodization.
