European Cooperation (Jul 2018)
FEATURES OF ECONOMIC EDUCATION OF CHILDREN AND ADULTS OF WESTERN UKRAINE IN EXHIBITION ACTIVITIES: HISTORICAL AND PEDAGOGICAL ASPECTS
Abstract
The historical and pedagogical aspect of the organization of exhibitions as one of the forms of economic education of children and adults of Western Ukraine from the XIXth - the first half of the twentieth century is considered, the possibility of using the historical educational experience is updated. In modern conditions, the economic education of children and adults becomes of particular relevance as a factor of professional and personal growth, which is carried out in variational forms of continuing education. The purpose of our study is to analyze the peculiarities of the economic education of children and adults of Western Ukraine in the exhibition activity as one of the forms of economic education of children and adults in the socio-historical conditions of the nineteenth and first half of the twentieth centuries.The research showed that in Western Ukraine, exhibitions were organized mainly by initiatives of cultural, educational and business associations Prosvita, Native school, Farmer, People's Trade, with the support of local authorities. The exhibitions were promoted by professional private educational institutions with a thorough vocational training. They promoted the development of commercial skills of exhibitors. Visitors and exhibitors formed an aesthetic feeling, raised respect for work, selflessness.
