The secular press of the Kyiv governance on churchparish Schooling at the end of the XIX – beginning of the XX century (on the example of Uman district)

Th e study aims is to systematize and analyze the publications about church-parochial schooling in the Uman district, which were found in the provincial newspapers «Kievskoe Slovo», «Kievlyanin», «Life and Art» in order to fi nd out the nature of the coverage of the topic by the secular press within the limits of the micro-historical approach. Th e research methodolo- gy involved the use of the principles of historicism, scientifi c objectivity, systematicity and com plexity. Th e article uses such methods as problem-chronological, descriptive, systematization, heuristic-search. Th e scientifi c novelty lies in the fact that the used sources not only expand the range of knowledge about church-parish schooling, but also convey information about critical aspects of the overall positive assessment of this link of education. Having a secular character, the examined provincial newspapers published information from correspondents, which combined offi cial data and echoes of public opinion. Conclusions. In the years of the rise of church-parish schooling, the secular press of the Kyiv province paid attention to this important matter. Th is was due to the improvement of the informational and legal basis of the functioning of this link of the education of the people, the parish schools of the end of the 19th – beginning of the 19th century. 20th century one and a half dozen publications were devoted to only one Uman district. Th eir thematic direction in a generalized form can be defi ned as follows: statistics of the school network, reports on the state of schools based on the results of visits by offi cials, criticism of the methods of auditing schools, the results of student examinations, the care of Orthodox clergy by schools. Publications have value both as sources of information and as a refl ection of evaluative judgments of that time.