DEVELOPMENT OF PHYSICAL EDUCATION AND SCIENCE IN THE LESYA UKRAINKA STATE PEDAGOGICAL INSTITUTE OF LUTSK IN 1946–1991

Abstract

The article reflects the results of a scientific and historical study, the theme of which is physical education and science at the Lesya Ukrainka State Pedagogical Institute of Lutsk in the mid-40s – early 90s of the ХХ century.The chronological boundaries of the study of this topic are determined by the resumption of the activities of the Lutsk Teachers Institute (1946), until the collapse of the Soviet Union (1991). The main features of the development of physical education and science in the Volyn region are demonstrated. The personnel aspect, the process of providing the institute with teaching staff, as well as material, technical and didactic support are analyzed. The process of students admission to the institute, the features of the admission campaigns of that time are also described. The author tried to describe the educational and methodological aspect of physical education and demonstrates its relationship with other aspects of education in the Volyn region. During the study of this topic, a wide range of historical sources were used, most of which are unpublished archival documents stored in the State Archives of the Volyn region. The source base also includes Volyn regional periodicals of the Soviet era and eyewitness accounts. The author used general scientific and historical-scientific methods of scientific research, in particular methods of analysis and synthesis, deductive and inductive, problem-chronological, comparative-historical and statistical. The work is of interest to historians-scientists, teachers, managers of education and science of Ukraine, students of higher and secondary educational institutions, as well as those who are interested in the history of education in Ukraine in the Soviet time.