Formation of the emotional world of the child in the pedagogical works of Vasyl Sukhomlynsky

Abstract

The article deals with the problem of formation the child’s emotional world in the pedagogical works of Vasyl Sukhomlynsky. The authors identify the main publications of the pedagogue, including «I give my heart to children», «Pavlysh secondary school», «Methods of team education». In these publications studied that the activity of the child's personality depends on the formation of his emotional world.

 Sukhomlynsky thought that an important condition of the formation of a comprehensively developed personality is its various activities. In different periods of the child’s development, the leading aspect is a different type of activity (play or learning) and the the formation of the emotional world of the child depends on its brightness and saturation. Sukhomlynsky in Pavlysh developed and implemented a clear purposeful educational system when all components (forms, methods, techniques and tools) were based on folk pedagogical and humanistic principles and had a child-centered character. The aim is in the formation of a joyful, positive attitude of the child to life. Along with traditional approaches, he used innovative authorial methods (composing fairy tales, ethical conversations, the culture of desires).

The article reveals the teacher's creative ideas about the connection of the emotional-volitional component in the formation of the personality of schoolchildren with their desire for self-education. The directions and means of actualizing the emotional-volitional conditions for the formation of a child's personality as a subject of upbringing in the heritage of Sukhomlynsky are determined. The possibility of responding the age and individual characteristics of the personality of a student who is the subject of education in a modern school is substantiated.