III. Answer the questions:

1. When did pedagogics appear in Ukraine?

2. What were schools like in Kyiv Rus?

3. What were children taught in Cossack schools?

4. What was the main goal of education during Zaporiz’ka Sich?

5. What was the first higher school in Ukraine?

6. Why was it closed?

IV. Complete the sentences:

1. At court school children of … were taught.

2. … founded the first library and printed the first … .

3. … organized Cossack schools, where children were taught … instruments, read, write and … .

4. The ideal of education was a … soldier, devoted to the … and his people.

5. … academy was founded in 1615.

6. The best traditions of the academy were … by Kyiv … .

V. Translate the sentences into Ukrainian and put questions to which these sentences are the answers:

1. Yaroslav the Wise, Volodymyr the Great made a great contribution to the flourishing of Ukrainian pedagogics.

2. Education was also carried out at church schools and in monasteries, and had a religious character.

3. Cossacks were taught to obtain military skills, reading, writing and counting.

4. Education in Kyiv-Mohyla Academy corresponded to the national values, best traditions and high level of education.

VІ. Match the English words with their Ukrainian equivalents:

1) devoted a) засновувати

2) to carry out b) виконувати наказ

3) faithful c) сміливий, хоробрий

4) to obey d) присвячувати

5) free of charge e) відданий

6) to inherit f) відмовляти(ся)

7) courageous g) вітчизна, батьківщина

8) to found h) проводити; здійснювати

9) to refuse i) успадковувати

10) motherland j) безкоштовний

VII. Make up sentences with the terms:

to make contribution, to take care, brotherhood, military skills, national traditions and customs, motherland, to found, to carry out, courageous soldier, court school, to inherit.

VIII. Divide the text into some historical stages, describe each of them.

IX. Project. Make a report on one of the prominent Ukrainian educators (not only from the text).

Text b

I. Read and remember the following words and word-combinations:

urban population – міське населення

printing house – друкарня

to establish – засновувати

training course – навчальний курс

to master skills – набувати навичок

to strengthen – зміцнювати

Bachelor – бакалавр

Master – магістр

astronomical observatory – астрономічна обсерваторія

II. Read and translate the text using the dictionary:

History of Education in Ukraine

History of education in Ukraine is closely linked to the whole history of the Ukrainian people. Its foundation was laid in the XVI-XVII centuries, when the urban population of Ukraine began to organize the brotherhoods. These organizations opened schools, printing houses, around which the culture forces have been gathering. The spread of education contributed the printing development in Ukraine in the second half of the XVI century.

The first institution of higher education in Ukraine – Kyiv-Mohyla College (later the Academy), which accepted mainly children of the Ukrainian government officials, priests, the rich and the Cossacks, was established in 1632, by combining Kyiv and Lavra brotherhood schools. There was mostly general education in the College. The training course lasted 12 years and was divided into 8 classes. Students had the philological training: they studied languages, mastered the poetic and rhetorical skills, studied classical Greek and Roman literature, history, geography, philosophy and theology. Kyiv-Mohyla College has played an important role in strengthening cultural ties between the Ukrainian people, South Slavic and other people. Some students and teachers of the College were trained in Poland, France, Italy, Britain, Germany and Hungary.

A certain role in the development of education in the Western Ukrainian lands was played by the University of Lviv. The University had two divisions – the philosophical and theological. Education at the University ended with getting a scientific degree – Licensed specialist, Bachelor, Master and Doctor of Philosophy. In the second half of the XVII century the Departments of Physics and Mathematics were opened, an astronomical observatory was established; the study of Polish, French, German languages, geography and history was implemented there.

In 1809 Kyiv high school was founded, which later became the higher educational institution. In 1805 Kharkov University was opened. In the first quarter of the XIX century such schools as Kremenets Lyceum (1803), Richelieu Lyceum in Odessa (1817), High School of Sciences of Duke Bezborod’ko in Nizhyn (1820) were founded. In 1834, Kyiv University was created; Chernovtsy University was established in 1874.