GENESIS OF ACADEMIC STAFF TRAINING BY MEANS OF PRIVAT ASSOCIATE PROFESSORSHIP IN UKRAINIAN UNIVERSITIES (THE SECOND HALF OF THE ХІХ – THE BEGINNING OF THE ХХ CENTURY): METHODOLOGICAL GROUNDS FOR THE SCIENTIFIC SEARCH

Abstract

The purpose of the article: to outline peculiarities of realizing activity and integrated methodologicalapproaches when analysing the system of academic staff training by means of privat associate professorship inUkrainian universities in the second half of the XIX – at the beginning of the XX century, theoretical provisionson the research methods for the specified problem. Methods of the research: analysis, synthesis, abstraction,generalization, classification, comparison, search and bibliographic method. Results of the research. Theauthor specifies the principles of the activity approach (development, historical character, subjectivity;internalization and exteriorization; unified structure of external and internal activity; activity), requirements to the integrated approach (establishing interrelations of the investigated phenomenon, considering externalinfluences, elimination of casual factors), requirements to scientific methods (determinacy, purposefulness,effectiveness, reliability, efficiency). The activity approach makes it possible to determine the effectivenessof the institute of private associate professorship in the system of academic staff training in Ukrainian universitiesin the second half of the XIX – early XX century, aims to identify its target, content, procedural, organizationaland technological integrity. The integrated approach allowed for studying the subject of scientific research,namely academic staff training by means of private associate professorship in the pre-revolutionary universitiesof Ukraine, on the grounds of the identified components (need, subject, object, activity content, conditions,result). Particular attention was focused on the theoretical provisions on the scientific methods (historicalcomparative,historical-genetic, historical-structural, historical-diachronic, chronological, modelling,personality-biographical, content analysis, interpretation, etc.) used in the study. Conclusions. Methodologicalsubstantiation of scientific research contributes to the holistic presentation of the specified problem.