METHOD COMPONENT OF THE CULTURE-DEFENSE PEDAGOGICAL CONCEPT OF V. SCHEPOTIEV (1880–1937)

Method  component  of  pedagogical  conception  of  culture  protection  by V. Schepotiev – the first rector of Poltava folk education Institute, professor of Ukrainian literature and philology, art critic, ethnographer, archivist and artist – is partially observed. The aim of pedagogical concept of the scholar is in national culture of young generation forming by the means of Ukrainian culture, because this generation is responsible before the offspring and is to be capable to culture protection activity providing.The classification of methods given includes two groups: 1) Pedagogical (traditional and innovative); 2) Scientific (theoretical and research). Authors analyze verbal (lection, storytelling, explanation, conversation and dispute); visual (art samples, the examples of patents, pedagogues, famous artists and social leaders); practical (work with the textbooks, fiction and scientific-popular sources studying, written and creative works doing – exercises, review, critique, original works; work with fiction text – biographical, problem – thematical, cultural-historical methods, image and meaning analyses); stimulating (convincing, interesting, requirement, contest). Innovative methods of the first quarter of the XX century are: play, dramatization, «literature court». Modern teachers of humanitarian disciplines are recommended to use the method of «literature court», elaborated by V. Schepotiev, in their professional activity.