Yatsiv O. Pedagogical ideas, cultural and educational activity of Mykola Shlemkevych (1894–1966)

The dissertation, for the first time, systematizes pedagogical ideas of M. Shlemkevych (a person as a subject of education, guidelines for the formation of a young person’s worldview, ethnopedagogical and ethnopsychological principles of the Ukrainian child’s character upbringing, methodological aspects of the development of spiritual sphere in Ukrainians) in the history of pedagogy, theory and methodology of upbringing, philosophy of education. On the basis of scientifically substantiated criteria (active civic position, evolution of the ideas about the importance of pedagogical anthropology, ways of forming ideological orientations), there have been distinguished three stages in the development of his pedagogical ideas: the first (1921–1929) – the stage of theoretical substantiation of pedagogical anthropology; the second (1930–1948) – the stage of generalization of the issue concerning the Ukrainian educational ideal; the third (1949–1966) – the stage of content transformation in upbringing character of the Ukrainian child and ethno-cultural identity of Ukrainians. There have been determined socio-cultural factors of the worldview formation in M. Shlemkevych as a pedagogical personality on the background of the social and political life of Galicia and the Ukrainian diaspora (freedom of choice, religion, faith, work on oneself, preservation of traditions).