STRUCTURE OF CULTURAL PROTECTION CONCEPT OF EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITY BY V. A. SHCHEPOTIEV

The  article  has  studied  pedagogical  views  and  educational  activity  of V. Shchepotiev (1880–1937) – the first rector of Poltava Institute of Education, literary critic, art historian, ethnographer, archivist, translator, and public figure.It has been scientifically grounded that a scientist’s pedagogical conception of culture protection has five concepts: 1) purposeful one includes the purpose of education – the formation of national consciousness in young generation by means of Ukrainian   culture,   the   formation   of   responsibility   for   it   to   the   succession; 2) theoretical  and methodological  concept (scientist’s  concept was based on culturological approach; principles of nationality, culture-correspondence, democracy, humanism, emotionality; it was realized in conditions of awareness by academic and pedagogical intellectuals of their culture protection mission; involvement of school youth to the common culture protection activities at secondary and high schools, extracurricular institutions, government agencies, community organizations and families; expansion of culture protection network of public institutions and public organizations); 3) content one (Ukrainian culture in all its diversity); 4) method component (unity of pedagogical and scientific methods – verbal, visual, practical, stimulating, active, theoretical and scientific-research; and also pedagogical and scientific forms of educational activity organization – the forms of education and upbringing of a personality, vocational training of future teachers and artists,  community  and  scientific  work);  5) praxeological  one  (culture  protection educational activity, scientific and pedagogical intellectuals were the subject of that activity and Poltava Institute of Folk Education was regional centre of culture protection).