ТHE DEVELOPMENT OF UKRAINIAN ETHNOGRAPHY IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY AND ITS IMPORTANCE IN THE STUDY OF THE EASTERN SLAVS’ CHILD WORLD

This publication reveals the problem of ethnographic studies of the nineteenth century, which concerned with the child world of Eastern Slavs. In the article, the author emphasizes that from the factual point of view ethnographic materials are valuable for the history of pedagogy and they are an important group of sources in the study of the folk pedagogy. In the nineteenth century, the world of the child renders active , this process was facilitated not only by professional educators - ethnographers make a significant contribution to the study of this problem because any description of the people is essentially impossible without his family and domestic institutions, ways of parenting. For the study of the specifics of parenting Eastern Slavs the important thing is a variety of important ceremonies, descriptions of clothing, children's furniture, accommodation, games, toys, children's participation in public life of the community. The value of ethnographic sources decreases with the approach to the present.