The Student Auditorium of Mykhailo Hrushevsky at Theological and Medical Faculties of Lviv University: an Attempt at Reconstruction
Year: 2023
Type: article
Abstract: The purpose of the research is to find out the quantitative parameters, ethnic composition and didactic priorities of the student audience of M. Hrushevsky at theological and medical faculties on the basis of the faculty’s catalogues. The methodological basis of the work is an interdisciplinary approach with particular emphasis on the structural-functional systematic analysis of historiographical facts and the comparative-historical method, based on the principles of objectivity and historicism. The scientific novelty of the article consists in an attempt to comprehensively analyze the student audience of M. Hrushevsky at the theological and medical faculties. Conclusions. Thanks to the analysis of the department’s catalogues, we were able to find out the difference between M. Hrushevsky’s curricula for faculties with general education and cultural components (philosophical and legal) and faculties where special professional training clearly prevailed. In the second case, we are talking about the theological and medical faculties, which, despite their distinct professional distinction, were united by the dominance of highly specialized subjects. The consequence of such specificity was the practical absence of the so-called general education courses, including the history of Ukraine, which M. Hrushevsky read, in the educational interests of the youth of these faculties. We can make a reasoned conclusion that for individual students of the theological and medical faculties, enrolling in the Ukrainian professor’s lectures was a deeply conscious worldview choice. This is evidenced by the fact that such students often preferred special courses to general historical courses. And in isolated cases, communication with M. Hrushevsky generally resulted in a radical change of professional plans and retraining as a historian. Thus, the department’s student catalogues once again proved their heuristic value for elucidating many issues that have long been dominated by historiographical stereotypes.
Source: Problems of humanities History
Language: English
Subfield: Education
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
SDG: Quality education
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4388917344