TARAS FRANKO’S WORKS ON BODY EDUCATION IN THE CONTEXT OF SPORT RECREATIONAL MOVEMENTS IN THE WESTERN UKRAINE OF THE 1920-30S Article One: Context

Abstract

The first article analyzes the problem of physical health and physical education (body education) in the pedagogical space of Ukraine in the first decades of the twentieth century, during the period of nonsovereignty when some territories of the country belonged to different empires, and the manifestations of Ukrainians’ national self-expression were not taken into account or even limited. More attention is paid to the clarification of implementation peculiarities of body education and health components in the educational and public space in the territory of Western Ukraine. There were two distinct trends in the implementation of body education aspects: one was based on the idea of cultivating folk traditions and experience (later, it was called ethno-pedagogy), the other one was developed on the models designed by different scholars, thinkers, who did not ignore the experience of folk pedagogy either. We consider the creative works of Western Ukrainian educators (O. Barvinsky, I. Bobersky, I. Pankovych, A. Voloshyna, T. Franko, etc.), who paid great attention to the issues of physical health in the educational process, considering it as an organic component of comprehensive education