CHARACTERISTICS OF PEDAGOGICAL IDEAS IN LITERARY WORKS OF G. VASHCHENKO

The pedagogical ideas of G. Vashchenko in the literary works of pedagogical and emigration periods are singled out. The pedagogical ideas concerning the formation of a creative personality are analyzed. The importance of educating a cheerful, vivid mood in a person is emphasized. The importance of the mother tongue in the upbringing of the younger generation is highlighted. The place and role of the teacher in the system of education of children is found out. The emphasis is placed on the meaning of using memories as a source of biographical research.The conducted research allows us to conclude that most of G. Vashchenko's pedagogical ideas are based on a deep knowledge of the foundations of folk pedagogy. The literary heritage of the teacher begins its counting from the end of the first decade of the twentieth century and is a valuable source for tracking, firstly, the creative interests of the young writer, and secondly, the democratic views of the writer on art, and thirdly, the author's deep research on the psychological aspects of the relationship of characters , fourthly, the necessary assertion of people in the belief in human progress, fifth, the emergence of the idea of liveliness of the spiritual wells of the people for the formation and development of personality, sixth, the origin of the intelligentsia her idea of selfless service to rural workers. Thus, in the literary works of G.Vaschenko, important pedagogical ideas, psychological observations, which received a powerful development in his pedagogical activity, were laid. These ideas in  today's conditions  are relevant and valuable for the development of the system of national education in Ukraine. The conducted research does not exhaust all aspects of pedagogical activity of G. Vaschenko and needs a holistic, systematic review and analysis of his pedagogical heritage.