AUTOBIOGRAPHY AS A SOURCE OF THE HISTORICAL AND PEDAGOGICAL RESERCH: THEORETICAL AND PRAGMATIC ASPECTS

Abstract

The article is a summary of the results of research devoted to peculiarities of autobiography as a source of historical and pedagogical research, particularly in the study of pedagogical personnel in the context of histor- ical retrospectives. This article presents a brief analysis of the characteristics of autobiographical works, their main components, which was founded in the late nineteenth century. For example, the text array of autobiog- raphies of the period proved that the authenticity of autobiographical works, their subjectivity, the presence of self-reflection and limited in time picture of events prove informative of the autobiography as a source for research of the pedagogical personnel in historical and pedagogical discourse, however, it warns against un- ambiguous perception of the facts biography of a person in isolation from the context of other biographical
documentary materials.