PEDAGOGICAL BIOGRAPHY OF FIGURES OF THE MUSICAL CULTURE OF THE DIASPORA AS AN IMPORTANT DIRECTION OF UKRAINIAN SCIENCE

Abstract

The article is devoted to a review of the achievements of musical pedagogy of the Ukrainian diaspora. The purpose of the research is to consider the activities of individual personalities of the diaspora musical culture through the prism of pedagogical biography. Based on the concept of academician Olha Sukhomlynska, the study considers pedagogical personality as a separate subject of historical and pedagogical research. Attention is drawn to the lives of teachers, their personal biographies, which form the basis for the reconstruction of the entire era of the twentieth century and reflect the pedagogical experience of this period. One personality is chosen to analyze individual subspecies of musical pedagogy of the Ukrainian diaspora: piano pedagogy is represented by Roman Savytskyi, violin pedagogy by Roman Prydatkevych, guitar pedagogy by Leo Vitoshynskyi, bandura pedagogy by Zynovii Shtokalko, vocal pedagogy by Oleksandr Myshuga, and conducting pedagogy by Mykola Malko. The research methodology is determined by the historical-chronological, systemic, axiological, and cultural methods of scientific knowledge. In particular, the historical-chronological method was used to consider the socio-political and cultural circumstances of the creative life of music teachers; the systematic method helped to consider the phenomenon of pedagogical biography in the interrelationships of various components; the axiological method was used to determine the value of the contribution of the leading figures of the musical culture of the Ukrainian diaspora to world music pedagogy; the culturological method provided consideration of the musical pedagogy of the diaspora as an integral part of Ukrainian and world musical culture. Conclusions. The achievements of the art pedagogy of the Ukrainian diaspora, through the prism of pedagogical biography of personalities, have an important historical and cultural significance, as they are not only evidence of the historical development of art education and pedagogy outside their native land, but, remaining Ukrainian in essence, contributed to the development of global and national culture.