Transformation of Cossack-Knightly Virtues in the Educational Ideals of the Ukrainian Elite

Abstract

The historical and pedagogical transformations analysis of the Cossack-knightly virtues in the educational ideals of the Ukrainian elite social class – gentry and nobility, spiritual and merchant is proposed. Major determinants of changes in the educational ideal of national nobility (loss of independence and the need to proof Ukrainian elite legitimacy of their claims to belong to the upper class of a regular owner) are formulated. It was found out that the main transformations of elite's educational ideal were : the transformation of the classical knightly ideal in Cossacks educational ideal, the gradual degradation of princely virtues, the breakaway of class leaders from the interests of their nation, acceptance of Ukrainian aristocracy gentry values educational ideal of the Russian Empire, the replacement of axiological values and orientations in the content of gentry-aristocratic ideal, reducing its effectiveness and its influence in the Ukrainian society and further de-legitimisation of the official Ukrainian elite, replacing from the formal aristocratic Ukrainian elite in new intellectual. The changes in educational ideal clergy are: decreasing of religious ideals effectiveness as models of the sacrificial life appearance of confrontation of religious educational ideals and their entry protonational (ethnic identification) value, the displacement from the content educational ideal of Ukrainian clergy nationally caused by internal spiritual freedom to choose a set of prohibitions and regulations, decreasing of Orthodox educational ideals effectiveness, the loss by Ukrainian clergy the function of saving Ukrainian educational ideal, the birth of a new ideal of Theological intelligence. It has been analyzed that the changes in educational ideal of the merchant class were: the growing interest in professional education, the emergence of the need to educate enterprise, determination and tolerance; establishing efficient religiosity, reorientation of focusing on important social affairs, the dominance of social responsibility and local economic patriotism education.

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L. M. Yershova

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L. M. Yershova (2016). Transformation of Cossack-Knightly Virtues in the Educational Ideals of the Ukrainian Elite. Вісник Житомирського державного університету імені Івана Франка, 83(1), 43-48. https://europub.co.uk/articles/-A-442385