З минулого і сьогодення історичного факультету Полтавського національного педагогічного університету імені В.Г. Короленка

Abstract

Славетна історія історичного факультету Полтавського національного педагогічного університету імені В.Г. Короленка була започаткована заснуванням Учительського інституту та Історико-філологічного факультету в Полтаві.

The history of Poltava Pedagogical University started from the foundation of The Teacher Training Institute (1914) and History and Philology Department of Kharkov University in Poltava (1918). The first Dean of History and Philology Department was a well-known scholar I.F. Rybakov, the pro - dean - N.Yu. Mirza-Avakyants, later she was a renowned scholar of the history of Ukraine of seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Leading experts were invited to reading lectures at the faculty, they were the historians of Kharkov University – Professors D.I.Bahaliy, V.O.Barvinskyy, Ye.V.Kaharov, M.F.Sumtsov. In April 1921 the two schools were established, and since that time it functioned under the following names of the Higher Institute of Folk Education (1921-1930), Institute for Social Education (1930-1933 ), Poltava Pedagogical Institute (1933-1999 ), and from December 2009 - Poltava National Pedagogical University named after Korolenko. And all these years has university training of highly qualified teachers of history, geography, economics, law, culture, social science. The Faculty has PNPU significant achievements in the field of research. Among its graduate students – Director of the Institute of History of the USSR in 40-50 years, O.K. Kasymenko, a well- known specialist in the fi eld of military history M.P. Derev’yanko, Ph.D. M.K. Boyko, Yu.V. Voloshyn , L.M. Zhvanko, V.I. Kozachenko, M.I. Nekoz, O.O. Nestulya, I.M. Petrenko, P.H. Radko, V.L. Savyelyev, R.A. Sitarchuk, B .V. Strilets, S.M. Tymchenko, T.O.Sharavara, M.A. Yakymenko. There were about 400 students who got their scientific degree while working at Poltava Pedagogical University. In 1966, at the History and Philology Department was separated into the departments History and Philology. Since then, Faculty of History has become a leading institution of their personnel academic staff, innovative forms of educational process. Today the dean of the History Department is P.A. Kravchenko, Ph.D., professor and an honored educator of Ukraine. Today there are more than 600 full-time and part-time students. The Department has five undergraduate and graduate chairs - History of Ukraine (the head is the Doctor of sciences, prof. R.A. Sitarchuk), World history and methodology of history teaching (headed by D.Sc., Professor B.V. Hod) geography and regional studies (headed by candidate of the geographical, Professor L.M. Bulava) philosophy ( headed by Professor P.A. Kravchenko), law (Headed by Associate Professor K.B. Pyvovarska). Around 90% of faculty teachers have degrees and titles. To prepare scientists with scientific degrees «Ph.D.», «Doctor of Philosophy», «Doctor of Science» in the History of Ukraine, world history and methods of teaching history and philosophy the department has postgraduate and doctoral studies. The faculty has its own library of scientific course books, they are «Historical Memory» and «Philosophical Horizons» , which have been recognized and licensed as professional edition on the national level, the results of scientific research and dissertations can be published there. At the faculty there are 4 scientific schools, where current problems of the state are being discussed and analyzed, as the relationship of church and state, historical, geographical local history of Christian denominations.