CHILDREN’S TOY IN THE GAME AND ETHNOGRAPHIC HERITAGE OF THE UKRAINIAN COMMUNITY OF THE SECOND HALF OF XIX – EARLY XX CENTURY

Abstract

The article discloses the real legacy of ethnographer and educational research members of the Ukrainian community of the second half of XIX – early XX century, full of desire to spread education among the people, to arouse its national identity. The structure of these societies were mainly representatives of the national intel- ligentsia directed, students, schools. Opened the value of children’s toys and games in the ethnographic herit- age of hromadamen K. Sheykovsky, Yu. Kahovsky, H. Yaschurzhinsky, A. Svidnitsky, P. Chubinsky, P. Kulish, A. Kansky, N. Lysenko, B. Poznansky and others. Hromadamen scientific potential in this case is significant, because in ethnography they mastering the virgin lands and raised such a formation that still nurtures creative thinking educators, historians, ethnographers, artists. Researchers-hromadamen proved that the game – a kind of stage in the formation of the psyche, which helps the child naturally and simply enter in the world, provides social adaptation. Using their ethnographer-pedagogical heritage – an excellent tool to attract children and young people to the cultural values of their people. Unfortunately, in modern pedagogy observed Insufficient developed theoretical and methodological aspects of the use of Ukrainian folk toys and games in the national education of the younger generation.