CONSERVATIVE IDEAS IN THE MYKOLA MAKKAVEYSKY’S HISTORY-PEDAGOGICAL NARRATIVE (END OF THE XIX – BEGINNING OF THE XX CENTURY)

Abstract

The influence of the conservative visions of the famous historian of pedagogy at the end of the 19th and early 20th centuries, Professor of the Kyiv Theological Academy Mykola Makkaveysky (1864–1919) on his history-pedagogical work are analyzed in this article. It was shown that M. Makkaveysky’s conservative views were manifested in the following implications: Great Russian national orientation; the interpretation of religion as the basis of national character, culture and pedagogy; emphasizing the need to preserve church-parish schools; recognition of autocracy as a natural and necessary phenomenon for Russian society. Along with this, M. Makkaveysky also expressed some liberal arguments about equality and helping the poor. But these thoughts did not contradict his conservative position, because they relied on Christian values.