The Ukrainian Education in Galicia (1919–1939): A Search for an Ideal

Abstract

The theoretical principles of the national education of children and students in the Ukrainian pedagogy of Galicia during 1918–1939 are scrutinized in the article. The approaches of the Ukrainian educators to the educational ideal, the purpose, content and tasks of the national education have been systematized. The focus on the national values (the national idea, the national unity, the national self-esteem, the national awareness), which are not innate but are formed in the process of the personal development and gaining the social experience on a qualitatively new content of education, in which the national and universal values are closely intertwined. The basis of education is the Ukrainian national idea as a desire for state independence.