AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION OF SOUTHERN UKRAINE POLICY

Abstract

The article reveals the policy aspects of agricultural education establishment in Southern Ukraine. The contribution of leading scientists to the formation of agricultural schools has been studied. This paper examines the stages of the agricultural education establishment in Southern Ukraine alongside the historical development of economic, social, cultural, and political life in the 19th – early 20th centuries due to reforms in the Russian Empire, including agricultural education. Our study focuses on the analysis of the agricultural education establishment in Southern Ukraine. The researched field includes materials of the archive of Odesa State Agrarian University; periodicals and electronic publications; narrative sources, in particular, the memoirs of professors of Odesa National University named after Ilya Mechnikov, Odesa Agricultural Institute, related with the agricultural education establishment in Southern Ukraine. The authors’ attention focused on the history of content, forms, and methods of educational process in Odesa State Agrarian University and the agricultural education establishment in Southern Ukraine in the 19th – early 20th centuries, particularly the organizational materials of the agrarian education schools of the specified period are highlighted. The stages of the historical development of the agricultural education are clarified, historical changes in the content, forms, and methods of educational process in agricultural educational institutions in the 19th – early 20th centuries are revealed. A study of the development of the history of agricultural education in Ukraine in the 19th – early 20th centuries under the influence of changes in the socio-political, socio-economic, and cultural life of the Russian Empire, the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic and modern Ukraine has been conducted. The development of the agricultural education system is illustrated. The authors trace the formation and development of agricultural education in general. The importance of the research results for use in the teaching of social sciences and humanities such as "History of Ukraine", "History of Ukrainian culture", "University Pedagogy" at Odesa State Agrarian University is proved.