Activities of the Faculty of public professions of the Cherkasy State Pedagogical Institute in 1970–1980s

Abstract

Abstract. Introduction. The process of «communist education» of students involved their active participation in the public life of the university and society as a whole. One of the forms of communist education of students and, in particular, increasing their public activity, were the faculties of public professions. In order to prepare students for future socially useful activities and their education in the communist spirit (for the society of useful people) in Cherkasy State Pedagogical Institute was created the Faculty of Public Professions (FPP), which after some time occupies a prominent place in vocational education and socially useful practices. In general, the FPP provided additional opportunities for the inclusion of young professionals in socio-political, socio-cultural and educational work.

Purpose. Find out and highlight the activities of the Faculty of Public Professions at the Cherkasy State Pedagogical Institute named after the 300th anniversary of the reunification of Ukraine with Russia in the 1970s – 1980s.

Results. As a result of the conducted research, it is substantiated that the faculty of public professions (FPP) occupied a rather noticeable place in the system of professional education of students of the Cherkasy State Pedagogical Institute in 1970–1980. He gave students the opportunity to acquire additional public specialties such as: organizer of komsomol and trade union work, organizer and performer of soviet rites, GPO instructor, librarian, senior pioneer, public photojournalist, instructor of military and patriotic education, guide, head of special circle, including technical (radio engineering, aircraft modeling, photo circle, automobile, tractor, etc.). Also at FPP students were trained to work at school: the editor of the old press, the specialist on work with parental collective, the head and the organizer of club of the international friendship, the organizer of extracurricular work at school. Graduates of the young lecturer school and FPP received additional opportunities for future employment and temporary employment in the summer.

It is also substantiated that the main task of the Cherkasy State Pedagogical Institute was to maximize the involvement of its students in public activities in the second public profession, because the degree of student participation in this activity depended on increasing its social activity.

Originality. The scientific novelty of this study is determined by the introduction into scientific circulation of unpublished archival materials of the State Archive of Cherkasy region and the archive of Bohdan Khmelnytsky National University of Cherkasy, which are a representative source of this research and conclusions, made by the authors.

Conclusion. A notable phenomenon in the life of the Cherkasy State Pedagogical Institute in the 1970s – 1980s was the Faculty of Public Professions. FPP created additional opportunities for the involvement of young professionals in socio-political, socio-cultural and educational work. The main task of the FPP was to provide students with the necessary knowledge and practical skills in organizing mass political, cultural, educational, sports and tourism activities, leading amateur art groups, technical and other groups, as well as involving students in the dissemination of political, scientific and technical knowledge among the population, the development of youth’s aesthetic views and tastes.

The management of the institute created conditions for a significant part of FPP students to be involved in public activities and to be able to work for the benefit of society during the period of study at the university.

Thus, the activities of the Faculty of Social Professions, which were intended to enrich its graduates with ideological and political, labor, aesthetic, physical and other education, fully met the threefold goal of comprehensive communist education of students who were to join the ranks of future «builders of communism».