A KHARKIV-POLTAV WRITER IN THE BRNEN-OLOMOUT PERSPECTIVE

Dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the birth of Prof. Mykhailo Hetmanets

Abstract

The present article shows how deep studies of the literary work of Anton Makarenko were carried out by three countries: Ukraine, Germany and Czechoslovakia, thus resulting in a synthetic approach provided to the studies of the literary and pedagogical heritage of the outstanding teacher of the 20th century. A special emphasis lies on Anton Makarenko's being Ukrainian: he lived in the Ukraine, wrote about Ukrainians, worked tirelessly organizing children's colonies for Ukrainian minors, and therefore his name as a teacher and writer belongs to Ukrainian, European, and world literatury heritage of the 20th century. The authors of scientific research build a "bridge" from the "Makarenko department" at the University of Marburg (Germany), chaired by Prof. Goetz Hillig to Ukraine, led by Prof. Mykhailo Hetmanets, to Moravia and Brno and Olomouc (Prof. Libor Peha) and prove the importance of the latter's scientific work, which allows to see Makarenko's pedagogy and its researchers in a new light. It is claimed that Professor Libor Peha, who studied Makarenko's pedagogy thoroughly, had a great respect for the outstanding contemporary researcher of Makarenko's heritage Mykhailo Hetmanets. The latter was the first one to draw attention to the importance of Makarenko's "Pedagogical Poem" as a work of art. At the same time, both the Olomouc researcher, as well as the Ukrainian scientist, insist on the need to study Makarenko's legacy as "common sense" pedagogics.