Development of patriotic sense of children and youth by means of activity of teacher, writer and public figure Ivan Fylypchak

Abstract

The article analyzes the life, work, literary, scientific, social and educational, ethnographic activities of the teacher and writer, local historian, scientist Ivan Fylypchak. It is emphasized that the historical prose of the writer («Kniahynia Romanova» (Princess Romanova ), «Za Sian» (Beyond Sian), «Budivnychyi Derzhavy» (State Builder), «Syla Voli» (Willpower), «Kulchytskyi – heroy Vidnia» (Kulchytskyi – Hero of Vienna), «Dmytro Detko», «Anna Yaroslavna – Koroleva Frantsii» (Anna Yaroslavna – Queen of France), «Berladnyk abo propashcha syla» (Berladnyk or Lost Power), etc.), as well as the life and work of Ivan Fylypchak, can now serve as a factor in educating a nationally conscious young people as true citizens and patriots. Ivan Fylypchak's pedagogical, literary, scientific, and economic activity is a unique phenomenon in the development of public education. Being a talented pedagogue (secondary school teacher in Sambir region), historian, ethnographer, public activist, cultural and educational figure, museum worker (organized the Boykivshchyna Museum in Sambor, that became the most popular museum not only in Galicia, but in Europe); in 1931 he was one of the founders of the Lemkivshchyna Society, a museum society in Sanok), editor, author of a number of works of art for children and youth, and teachers' works «Za Vchytelskym Khlibom» (For teacher's bread)), he contributed greatly into the development of Ukrainian literature, culture, education. Fylypchak's legacy in the field of Ukrainian schooling, museology, ethnography, agriculture, journalism needs thorough study and analysis, and his historical scientific works and fiction should take their rightful place in the pages of educational literature, textbooks on Ukrainian literature for modern students and schoolchildren. Important for today, especially for those young men and women who aspire to become teachers, is «Povist z zhyttia molodoi vchytelky» (A story from the life of a young teacher), «Za vchytelskym khlibom» (For Teacher's Bread). It depicts the type of teacher-innovator, citizen-patriot, who organically combines personalities of a citizen-educator and a creative teacher-methodologist. Such literary images serve as a model for students of Ivan Fylypchak Sambir Pedagogical College, where a room-museum was organized, and in 2001 a monument to I.Fylypchak was solemnly opened and consecrated on the territory of the educational institution.