History
/ hystory of Eastern Europe
Sheyko
O.V.
National
University of Life and Environmental Sciences of Ukraine, Ukraine
The
city of Nizhyn as a scientific and educational center
In 1805, the Gymnasium of Higher
Education was founded in Nizhyn, Ukraine. Graduates from the Nizhyn Lyceum were
distinguished by Ukrainian writers, scholars, public figures, among them - M.
Gogol, E. Grebinka and others.
In 1832 the gymnasium was
transformed into a technical (physico-mathematical) lyceum for the training of
military officers, and in 1840 it became a law school preparing officials for
the juridical bureaucracy. Its broad curriculum was replaced by a narrow one,
and the general level of education fell. The gymnasium taught classical
languages, Russian language, and history and prepared teachers for the
secondary school system. The program also included courses in psychology and
pedagogy. From 1876 to 1921 «Izvestiia Istoriko-filologicheskogo instituta»,
which contained many original works on Ukrainian and general history by
professors and students at the institute, was published there
After the Revolution of 1917 the gynmasium
was transformed into the Nizhyn Institute of People's Education (1922) and then
into the Institute of Social Education (1930) before becoming the Nizhyn
Pedagogical Institute in 1934, the Nizhyn State Pedagogical University in 1998,
and finally the Nizhyn State University in 2004.
Now he university is under the
jurisdiction of the Ukrainian Ministry of Education. It consists of seven
faculties: philology, history and law, foreign languages, culture and arts,
psychology and social sciences, natural sciences, and physics-mathematics.
The Faculty of History and Law is
one of the oldest faculties of the Nizhyn State University. Nowadays there are four
departments in the structure of the faculty: Department of History of Ukraine
and Political Science, Department of World History, Department of Law and
Methodology of Teaching of History and Law disciplines, Department of
Philosophy and Sociology.
The traditional specialties for this
faculty are history and jurisprudence, history, archeology, political science.
This year the university conducted a set
of students to new faculties: faculty of history and regional studies and
tourism work and faculty of international relations, public communications and
regional studios.
The
attraction to sharing knowledge and experience with international institutions
is manifested in the present events of the University.
From June 21 to 28, 2017, the first
vice-rector of the Nizhyn State University prof. O.D. Boyko and teachers of the
Faculty of History and Law in the person of Dean V.V. Martynenko, Head of the
Department of Political Science and Law, F.V. Baranovsky, associate professor
of the Department of History of Ukraine M.V. Potapenko and associate professor
of the Department of World History and International Relations Y.V. Kuzmenko
attended the invitation of the Council of Doctoral Students at the Pedagogical
University of the People's Commissariat of Education in Krakow (Republic of
Poland).
The main purpose of the visit was to
establish cooperation between Nizhyn State University
named after Mykola Gogol and the Pedagogical University of the name of the
Public Education Commission in Krakow. The delegation of the Nizhyn State
University named after Mykola Gogol was able to communicate with the rector of
the Pedagogical University Kazimierz Karolchak and the vice-rectors of the
educational institution.
On June 26, during an official
meeting with the Vice-Rector for International Affairs Robert Soustarz and the
Head of the Institute of Political Science at the Pedagogical University, an
agreement was reached on the signing of a cooperation agreement between the
educational institutions. It is worth saying that cooperation between the Faculty
of History and Law of the Nizhyn State University named after Mykola Gogol and
the Institute of Political Science at the Pedagogical University in Krakow
began in 2016 thanks to the teacher Mateusz Kamiyonca. Thus, in October 2016,
the International Conference for Students and Young Scientists "European
Integration: Historical Experience and Political Perspectives" was held
jointly, and from August 24, 2017, the International Summer School
"Challenges for Contemporary Democracy: Ukrainian and Polish Vision",
organized by the Nizhyn State University named after Mykola Gogol together with
Polish colleagues for the students of the Nizhyn State
University named after Mykola Gogol, the Pedagogical University named after the
Commission of National Education and all interested students of Ukraine and the
Republic of Poland, who were interested or the study of problems democracy.
Its main goal was to deepen
knowledge of Ukrainian and Polish students about the threats to modern
democracy, the formation of skills for analyzing political processes through
direct participation in solving current and future issues of the development of
democratic foundations of public life. The active participants of the school
were students of the specialties "Political Science",
"International Relations" and "History" of the Polish -
Pedagogical University named after the Public Education Commission in Krakow,
Warsaw University, Rzeszow State University and Ukrainian universities - Nizhyn
State University named after Mykola Gogol, Kyiv University. Boris Grinchenko,
Lviv National University. I. Franko and the Ternopil National Pedagogical
University named after. V. Hnatyuk. Such a format of the event was initiated by
Candidate of Sciences, associate professor of the Department of World History
and International Relations Yulia Kuzmenko, Candidate of Sciences, associate
professor of the Chair of History of Ukraine Maxim Potapenko and a master's
degree in political science, a doctoral student, a teacher of the Pedagogical
University in Krakow Mateusz Kamionka.
The practical implementation of the
results of the international summer school was the presentation, protection and
public discussion of collective projects by Ukrainian-Polish teams dedicated to
the challenges and threats of democracy in the modern world.
Thanks to the participation in the
International Summer School, Ukrainian and Polish students gained the
opportunity to exchange experience, set up an inter-ethnic historical-cultural
dialogue and received unforgettable impressions. The organized event
contributed to the rapprochement of the Ukrainian and Polish peoples and the
overcoming of stereotypes.
Nizhyn State University named after
Mykola Gogol express the hope that the International Summer School "Challenges
for Contemporary Democracy: Ukrainian and Polish Vision" will become
traditional and will facilitate the deepening of cooperation between Nizhyn
State University named after Mykola Gogol and the Pedagogical University named
after the Commission of Education in Krakow.
Representatives of the Nizhyn State
University named after Mykola Gogol also took an active part in the work of the
III International III-th Interdisciplinary Conference
"Nature-Man-Culture". The section "Ukraine and Poland on the
road to democracy", in which the speakers from Nizhyn spoke, featured
interesting reports and lively discussions.
Literature:
1.
Internet Encyclopedia of Ukraine
hosted by the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies. http://www.encyclopediaofukraine.com
2.
Головний портал Ніжина. http://www.mynizhyn.com
3.
Офіційний сайт Ніжинського
державного університету імені Миколи Гоголя. http://www.ndu.edu.ua/index.php/ua/