DEVELOPMENT OF PRIVATE COMMERCIAL EDUCATION IN YELYSAVETGRADSHCHINA (LATE XIX - EARLY XX CENTURY)

Abstract

The study of the past of domestic education provides an opportunity to study the historical experience of private commercial education, to predict the main trends of its development in the future, to study the process of such development in this period will enrich modern science with knowledge about the mechanisms of modernization of commercial education. The article provides a historiographical analysis of research that reveals the issues of private commercial education in Yelisavetgrad region in the late nineteenth - early twentieth century. It is established that at the present stage the interest of scientists both in the system of commercial education and in the peculiarities of the development of some private commercial educational institutions in Yelisavetgrad region has significantly increased. Researchers are trying to more objectively assess the achievements in the field of commercial education in the region, due to the openness of archives and the availability of new sources. It is revealed that dissertation and monographic researches are of great value for understanding the specifics of regional features of commercial education of the studied period. Few scientific studies of modern scientists (V. Postolatiya, O. Guryanova, A. Kava, O. Filonenko, etc.), which revealed the prerequisites, main stages, content and forms of organization of the educational process in private commercial schools in Ukraine , in particular in the Yelisavetgrad region, testify that the history of commercial education was a significant page in the history of the Yelisavetgrad region of the pre-revolutionary period. In private commercial educational institutions, which were one of the best commercial institutions in the Russian Empire, the experience of combining two levels of education was formed - general and vocational, a democratic form of government prevailed, and educational tasks were effectively solved. It is established that the holistic history of the development of commercial education in Yelisavetgrad region in the late XIX - early XX centuries has not yet been properly covered in historiography. Further development of analysis and systematization of research on this issue.