VASYL SUKHOMLINSKY: ABOUT THE CLASSIC ROOM AS AN IMPORTANT COMPONENT OF THE EDUCATIONAL ENVIRONMENT
Abstract
In article the author describes the views of V. Sukhomlynskyi on the arrangement of the classroom as an important component of the educational environment. We found out that in the native pedagogy Vasyl Sukhomlynskyi one of the first drew attention to a set of factors of school life, which carry out both direct and indirect influence on the formation of the student's personality and called them a «background». The author proved that for V. Sukhomlynskyi school buildings, its material base is also a «necessary condition for a fully-fledged pedagogical process», and «a means of influencing the spiritual world of pupils». In the writings «Pavlyshka High School», «Heart I give to children», the teacher paid a lot of attention to the description of the material base of the Pavlyshka school, the atmosphere of classrooms.
The attention of the pedagogical staff of Pavlyshka school was focused on well thought out and well-balanced arrangement of school premises and classrooms. V. Sukhomlynskyi described in detail the classroom for elementary school pupils, which had their own household (flowerpots, cabinets (with notebooks, pencils, visual aids, materials for manual labor), table, ruler or meter (for work on a board), a compass, a pointer, a box with a color chalk), an economic corner (needles, threads, buttons, cloths, cloths of fabric). The teacher describes in detail the arrangement of the offices of the main school: mathematics, language and literature, foreign language, etc. Significant place in the writings of the teacher is the characteristic of the «green classes» (arbours, cherished wild grapes and hops and lawns, surrounded on three sides by a frost-resistant grape variety) as a component of the educational environment of the Pavlyshka School. The analysis of V. Sukhomlynskyi's works allows us to assert that all premises, corridors, and classrooms were designed at the school in accordance with the age, the interests of children, and they had to «call for something, learn something» for children.
