DEPARTMENT OF CHEMISTRY AND TRAINING OF CHEMISTRY TEACHERS IN NIZHYN HIGHER SCHOOL: PAGES OF HISTORY

Abstract

In course of a current socio-cultural change and incorporation of the national education system into the world integration processes, the study and creative application of past experience takes the value. The article aims at analysis of a foundation and development of the Department of Chemistry of Nizhyn Mykola Gogol State University and general directions of its activity in the training of chemistry teachers from 1934 to 2003. In the post-war period, the Department of Chemistry was headed by Associate Professor Mykhailo Mykhailovych Kopnin, an organic chemist and a graduate of Warsaw University. The figure of the true founder of the department, Associate Professor Oskar Moiseiovych Baram, who held the position of head of the department from 1961 to 1976, is depicted. Article reflects his activities in developing the material base of the department and creating a young generation of lecturers from the best graduates of the department, who became the core of the department's staff in the following decades, and providing high-quality training of chemistry teachers. Article describes development of long-standing traditions of the department and directions for its renewal at the following period of activity (1976-1991) during the years of a leadership of well-known scientist in the field of organic chemistry, Professor Andrii Volodymyrovych Dombrovskyi. His role in writing textbooks on organic chemistry for basic and higher education students and in the implementation of activities inherent to classical universities into the process of education of school teachers is reflected. The beneficial influence on the development of the department, its scientific and creative potential of the Dean (1979-2003) of the Faculty of Natural Sciences and Geography, Associate Professor Ivan Ivanovych Kocherga, is noted. The activity of the chemistry department under the leadership (1991-2003) of Associate Professor Nina Ivanivna Lukashova is analyzed. It was a period of development of long-standing traditions and the search for innovative approaches to the professional training of future teachers, taking into account implementation of the multi-level teaching approach. It's outlined, how the scientific school of Volodymyr Volodymyrovych Sukhoveev was developing and crystallizing at the department and how it influenced on the following activity of the department and its transformation into the current department of chemistry and pharmacy.