Historiography of Research of Development of Higher Technical Education of Ukraine in the Second Half of the XX Century

У статті здійснено історіографічний аналіз радянської та сучасної історичної літератури, присвяченої питанням розвитку вищої технічної освіти в Україні у 1950 – 1990 рр. Висвітлено узагальнюючі праці з питань підготовки фахівців радянською вищою школою, зокрема кадрів науково-технічної інтелігенції в УРСР через мережу технічних вишів. Схарактеризовано наукові розвідки сучасних українських дослідників, що містять відомості з історії найавторитетніших технічних ВНЗ країни. З’ясовано стан наукового висвітлення проблеми та здійснено авторську класифікацію джерельної бази дослідження.In article the historiographic analysis of the Soviet and modern historical literature devoted to the questions of development of higher technical education in Ukraine in 1950 – 1990 is made. The purpose of the article is the clarification of a condition of scientific publicizing of development of higher technical education of Ukraine in the second half of the XX century, the characteristic of a historiography and the analysis of the source base on a research subject. For achievement of the purpose the following methods of research are used: historical and genetic, comparative analysis, systematization, classification and generalization. It is established that questions of the organization and development of higher technical education belong to actual historical and pedagogical problems to what numerous works of scientists of the studied period, and the present testify. Two periods of research of this problem are defined: the first – 50–80th of the XX century – the Soviet stage is presented by mainly descriptive works with elements of the critical analysis of educational policy of the USSR, the second – the 90th of the XX century – the beginning of the XXI century – the newest stage of Ukrainian historiography is characterized by fundamental works on various aspects of development of higher technical education and preparation of engineering shots. It is positively estimated historical completions of historians of Soviet period and it is emphasized that these publications, despite a total ideologization have considerable scientific value in the view of accumulation, systematization and primary interpretation of the number of actual material on problems of training of specialists with the higher education, including on preparation of engineering shots. It is defined that at the present stage of a native historiography there were high-quality changes in research and illumination of history of higher technical education of the specified period caused, first of all, by dismissal of historical and pedagogical science from the Soviet ideology. During research the generalizing works concerning training of specialists by the Soviet higher school, in particular shots of the scientific and technical intellectuals are reflected in the USSR through a network of technical colleges. The scientific researches of modern Ukrainian researchers containing data on stories of authoritative technical colleges of the country are characterized. The condition of scientific coverage of the topic is found out and carried out author’s classification of source base of research