EDUCATIONAL WORK OF TERNOPIL PEDAGOGICAL INSTITUTE IN THE YEARS OF RECONSTRUCTION

Abstract

The purpose of the study – using archival sources and periodicals, to analyze the educational work of the Ternopil State Pedagogical Institute in the years of Gorbachev’s reconstruction. The research methodology is based on general scientific methods, incl. analysis, synthesis, methods of analogy and comparison, dialectical method. Were used also various special historical methods of historical research. Among them are retrospective and historical-genetic, historical-comparative, historical-typological, problem-chronological, structural-functional. The scientific novelty lies in the fact that today there is no analytical research on the history of the Ternopil Pedagogical University, in particular, for the first time in this article, the educational work of the predecessor of the current pedagogical university – Pedagogical Institute during the reconstruction period. Conclusions. During the second half of the 80s. – early 90s. Of the XX century there have been significant changes in the educational work of the Ternopil Pedagogical Institute. In particular, nationally-oriented training plans were introduced, new forms of organization of the educational process began to be used, Ukrainization processes deepened, although, in general, the question of the Ukrainization of the institute was difficult to decide. The management of the university took into account the proposals, in particular, of students to improve academic work. New special courses, special seminars, workshops and electives were introduced, more attention was paid to learning foreign languages, strengthening ties with schools, new forms and methods of active learning were spreading, and the computerization of the educational process was expanding. At the same time, by the end of the decade, the absolute and qualitative indicator of student performance declined significantly, some of which received a penalty.