Ivanna Blazhkevych about the development of pre-school education as a factor in building a strong state

¹ Ternopil Volodymyr Hnatiuk National Pedagogical University, Department of Service Industry, Technologies, Occupational Health and Safety, Ternopil, 46027, Ukraine
² Kujawy and Pomorze University in Bydgoshch, Department of Early Education, Special Pedagogy, Resocialization, 85-023 Bydgoshch, Poland
³ Khmelnytskyi Humanitarian-Pedagogical Academy, Department of Pedagogy, Khmelnytskyi, 29013, Ukraine
⁴ Ternopil Regional Communal Institute of Postgraduate Pedagogical Education, Department of Pedagogy and Psychology and Inclusive Education, Ternopil, 46027, Ukraine

^* Corresponding author: rfn.yz87@gmail.com

Abstract

The activity and creative work of Ukrainian activist, writer, teacher Ivanna Blazhkevych (1886“1977) in the context of the development of pre-school education as a factor of strengthening the state have been thoroughly investigated in the article. For the first time the periodization of main stages of life and development of cultural-educational and scientific ideas of Ivanna Blazhkevych were substantiated in the article. The basic directions of pedagogical and cultural-educational activity and creativity of I. Blazhkevych have been clarified: pre-school-pedagogical (organization of pre-school institutions; substantiation of methods of pre-school education; determination of requirements for kindergarteners-educators); educational (participation in the elimination of illiteracy), ethnographic (collection of ethnographic material: recording folk songs, legends, sayings); national-patriotic (preservation of national traditions, mother tongue); guardianship (assistance to local war victims, prisoners of war, establishing orphanages for children); economic (founding cooperatives; working as a director of the district union of cooperatives in Ternopil), literary (writing books for children).