Formation and Development of Preschool Education and Teacher Training in the Bukovyna (the 19th and the beginning of the 21st century)
Formation and Development of Preschool Education and Teacher Training in the Bukovyna (the 19th and the beginning of the 21st century)

Summary/Abstract: The purpose of the article is to highlight aspects of the formation and development of the preschool education in the Bukovyna taking into consideration the multicultural environment in the historical perspective. The issue of multicultural education is especially important taking into the consideration the fact that multiculturalism education of future citizens starts from the early childhood. Within centuries multifaceted spiritual culture, traditions of peaceful coexistence of different ethnic communities were formed in the Bukovyna. They attracted and still do the attention of both the public and scientists. The article deals with the specific features of development of preschool education in a multi-ethnic environment in the Bukovyna, influenced by various social, political, cultural and educational processes. The stages of the development and formation of preschool education and teacher training in the Bukovyna in XIX and beginning of the XXI century are highlighted. The work analyses the origin of preschool education in the Bukovyna in the days of Austrian rule; the history of preschool education during the reign of the royal Romania; the deployment of the network of preschool education in the Soviet era; the development of preschool education in the Chernivtsi region in Ukraine since Independence. Each of the historic periods is sufficiently described providing the examples. It is stressed that the process of teaching of preschool children sets high demands to the training of the future teacher, who has to be well-educated, modern, competitive and skillful specialist. Furthermore, general scientific approaches and statements to the preschool education are grounded in the article.

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