The formation and development of a pedagogical university in Pereiaslav- Khmelnytskyi (from an outliar to a university): a historical essay to the 30th anniversary.

The history of formation and development of pedagogical University in Pereiaslav-Khmelnytskyi during the last three decades have been considered in detail in the historical essay based on archival materials. There is also presented historical material about the numerous group of the local teachers and scholars. The emphasis is placed on the fact that in the modern world higher education has become a complex and multidimensional social phenom enon which is inextricably linked with the society. Society make a social order to form an educational system, and the system of higher education as a sphere of production and transfer of knowledge and social experience affects the development of society and accordingly forms it. The thesis that the newest Ukrainian state and young civil society are undergoing the collapse and breaking of undemocratic forms of social organization were argued, they found themselves in a very diffi cult situation of socio-political and civilizational self-determination. They are forced simultaneously to resolve a number of diverse tasks: to overcome the heavy burden of a totalitarian of Soviet heritage, to create a national statehood, to develop competitive development strategies in a modern globalized world. This diffi cult situation requires the search for new people (both organizers and executors) and new approaches to comprehension of the modern world, the formation and development of the latest viable theoretical (including educational) paradigms. The red thread through the essay is the thesis that just like the history is made by people, the education and science are created by the bearers of knowledge, the tireless pedagogues-ascetics, which undoubtedly are the elite and business card of the educational institution in Pereiaslav-Khmelnytskyi. Scientists from the University who are well-known to the general public of Ukrainian educators and who work effectively in the fi eld of history and political science, philosophy, pedagogy and psychology, philology, physical education, valeology and pediatrics, folk botany and zoology, economics are well presented in the historical essay. The 30-year history of scientifi c research and educational process is presented through the prism of human dimension, the disclosure of the contribution of each scientist, teacher, educator and mentor of youth to the construction of the temple of education and science in the ancient Pereiaslav which celebrated the 1110th anniversary from the fi rst written mention in 2017. The succession of educational institutions (from the outliar of the Kyiv O.M. Gorky State Pedagogical Institute (June 23, 1986 – September 17, 1991), Pereiaslav-Khmelnytskyi outliar of the Kyiv M. Dragomanov State Pedagogical Institute (September 17, 1991 – November 24, 1993) to the Pereiaslav-Khmelnytskyi State Pedagogical Institute (November 24, 1993 – February 28, 2002) and Pereiaslav-Khmelnytskyi Hryhorii Skovoroda State Pedagogical University (from February 28, 2002 to the present)) in Pereiaslav-Khmelnytskyi with the use of their best pedagogical achievements in the learning process and modern pedagogical practice are investigated in the article