PYSANKA ART OF HUTSULS AND FORMATION OF CHRISTIAN VALUES AND ETHNOCULTURAL IDENTITY OF MODERN YOUTH

Abstract

The article reveals the role of pysanka art in Hutsulshchyna in the formation of Christian values and ethnocultural identity of modern youth, assimilation of the foundations of hutsulshchynoznavstvo. Hutsul region covers eastern and the hilliest part of the Ukrainian Carpathians. The authentic folk culture of its native people – ethnographic group of hutsuls has been preserved up to present times. In the period of the formation of the independent Ukrainian state a wide range of normative-legal acts concerning the preservation and popularization of hutsul culture have been adopted. Regional and international projects in this sphere have been started. The tradition of hutsul pysanka has been taken into the National list of the elements of non-material cultural heritage of Ukraine. This type of national art remains traditional in many Carpathian villages where local masters have made it a top perfection.
The peculiarities of preservation and revival of the pysanka art traditions as one of the leading types of Hutsul decorative and applied art have been highlighted. The significance of the Ukrainian traditional pysanka in the context of modern ethnocultural processes has been determined. The necessity of modernization of the system of national education in accordance with the Concept of the New Ukrainian School (2016) and the Law of Ukraine «On Education» (2017), updating the content, forms and methods of spiritual formation of education applicants is emphasized. The science-methodological union – Hutsul Educational Council that unites the teachers of eight hutsul regions, such as Prykarpattia, Bukovyna and Zakarpattia, has worked out the conceptual principles of the reconstruction of hutsul schools as regional, Ukrainian, national ones. The use of ethnographic component as well as decorative-applied art in modern educational institutions has become its basic idea.
The system, forms and methods of educational work of institutions of general secondary education, out-of-school and art institutions of the Hutsul region for the study and popularization of pysanka art have been described. The emphasis is put on the necessity of study of the ancient centres of pysanka art of Hutsulshchyna, on the acquaintance with its regional peculiarities and national customs and traditions connected with pysanka art.
The possibilities of museum pedagogy in the process of youth getting acquainted with pysanka art of Hutsulshchyna, forming a respectful attitude to traditions, beliefs, holidays, customs, and culture of the people have been revealed. The emphasis is put on the importance of using the experience of national and professional pysanka masters in the process of formation of general cultural and value-semantic competences of education applicants. The offers for improving the teaching and methodological support for the study of pysanka art and the popularization of this type of folk art of Hutsulshchyna have been submitted.