GENESIS OF A PRIMARY SCHOOL TEACHER TRAINING IN UKRAINE

The genesis of primary school teachers training problem in Ukraine is described in the article. Based on the deep study of historical, scientific and methodological literature, author finds out that researchers in the field of primary education approached differently to the periodization of primary school teachers training and that the formation of this system takes place within the overall development degree of education in Ukraine, so first of all it should be based on the main stages of its development. Guided with the aim to submit the own periods of this process, the author puts forward the idea that the source of its origin should be seen in the establishment of fraternal schools in the seventeenth century where the first practical primary school teachers training was implemented. The article details the compliance of the major milestones of the primary school teachers' training process of education degree development phase in Ukraine and historical realities of the formation of the specialists in modern system of primary education professional training, highlighted in the national scientific exploration. Integrating existing approaches to periodization of the training primary school teachers national system and based on modern scholars' researches, the author singles out the following chronological stages based on their importance and contribution to training primary school teachers in Ukraine propaedeutic ? the stage of the national professional primary school teacher training nascence (1620 ? the first half of the nineteenth century); initial ? phase of theoretical and methodological development of the primary schools teachers training principles (the second half of the nineteenth century ? 1927); base ? stage of the founding primary school teachers training faculties in colleges and universities of Ukraine (1928 ? 1970); modernization ? the stage of improving the primary school teachers training system under the intensification influence of the educational process (1970 ? 1995); innovation ? the stage of the primary school teachers' training system renewal and reform under the social innovation influence in Ukraine and in the world (1995 ? present days). In conclusion of the research the author formulates the opinion that during the long history period ? since 1620 to present days ? Ukrainian tradition of training primary school teachers has been gradually forming, strengthening, updating, and now primary school teachers in Ukraine are prepared by more than 30 higher educational institutions that are represented in all parts of the country.