Impact of Chernivtsi State Women's Teachers’ Seminary on Developing Pre-School Teachers Professional Training in Bukovyna (Late XIX - Early XX Centuries)
Impact of Chernivtsi State Women's Teachers’ Seminary on Developing Pre-School Teachers Professional Training in Bukovyna (Late XIX - Early XX Centuries)

Author(s): Iaryna Kvasetska
Subject(s): Social Sciences
Published by: Editura Lumen, Asociatia Lumen
Keywords: Women’s teachers’ seminary; Froebel course; distant education; teachers’ professional training; kindergarten with distinction
Summary/Abstract: The article focuses on issues of formation and development of pre-school teachers’ professional training in Bukovina in the time it was a part of Austrian-Hungarian Empire. On the grounds of historiographic analysis of the issue under research was found impact of state legislative-normative acts on professional pre-school education system, quality of professional training of would-be pre-school teachers. It clears the meaning of the all-Austrian law on grounds for education in people’s schools of May 14, 1869, which was the first in the history of Austrian education legislation to include pre-school institutions in the system of primary education and introduced teachers professional training for pre-school and primary educational institutions on the basis of newly-founded women’s teachers seminaries; the order of Ministry of Religion and Education of May 22, 1872 on kindergartens and related institutions, which established official system of pre-school education in the Austrian part of Austrian-Hungarian Empire, as well as prerequisites for obtaining teacher’s qualifications at a one-year Froebel course at teachers seminaries and through distant education. The article analyzes prerequisites for formation and peculiarities of functioning of Chernivtsi State Women's Teachers Seminary, organizing pre-school teachers professional training on its basis within general teachers training for people’s schools and by means of part-time Froebel courses (distant training for teachers with mandatory three-month practicum on the basis of a kindergarten with distinction at a teachers seminary).

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