| Abstract [eng] |
In 1918-1940 in the field of education the communicative function was being carried by the pedagogical press of Lithuania, readers were informed about the problems and news in pedagogy, in addition, there was a try to react to all the current affairs related to schools, teachers and students. Analysing the maturity of educational science in Lithuania during the consideration period, the pedagogical press of Lithuania may be considered as one of the main sources. The aim of this work is to analize the spread of pedagogical thought in the pedagogical press of Lithuania in the period of 1918-1940. Goals: 1. To discuss the circumstances of the origin of the pedagogical press in Lithuania. 2. To analyse the main educational problems examined in the pedagogical press of Lithuania of 1918-1940. Historical-chronological method was applied to analyse the development and the distinction of the educational press of 1918-1940. Bibliographical researches revealed the authors and their works on pedagogy of the analysed period, to survey their articles, and to assess the worth of their works to educational science. The analysis of articles is concluded by the search of commonalities. For this purpose, the method of generalization was applied. There was no aim to cover all the persona of educational science and their articles, but the most distinct representatives, who wrote on pedagogical topics and were quoted in the pedagogical press of the interwar period, and ones who brought innovations in educational science, were chosen. Quoted sources were applied in order to reveal, emphasise, and discuss the problems of the educational science. The analysis of the pedagogical press revealed that some authors who wrote on educational topics focused on the presentation of the problem, the offer of practical recommendations to teachers, the development of students’ creativity and self-sufficiency as well. Moreover, the work focuses on the theory of the national education. One of the most significant goals of the school reform – the consolidation of the national education – was implemented with the help of this theory. In addition, in 1918-1940 the importance of such topics as teaching mother-tongue and literature, knowledge of homeland and environment, aesthetical education, education of self-sufficiency and self-control, religion and religious education were discussed in the pedagogical press. In this work it was aimed to emphasise the role of teachers, their input in developing the system of the pedagogical science with the help of the analysis of special educational articles on such topics as teaching, educating and training. |
