Abstract
The article shows the development and formation of higher education in the territory of Cherkasy region in the 20-30’s of the XX century. An attempt is made to investigate the creation of higher education institutions in the Cherkasy region in the 1920’s and 1930’s and to show their local history activities. This issue is not yet sufficiently covered in historical scientific discourse, so this article attempts to do so. The study of the history of Ukraine, local history, and special historical disciplines is especially relevant in our time, when the war is ongoing and we need to know history and identify ourselves by our historical and cultural affiliation. In writing the publication, we used the principles of scholarship, objectivity, and comprehensiveness. Among the special historical methods, we used comparative-historical, problematic-chronological, and retrospective, which make it possible to coordinate the events and facts under study, to present the material in a clear chronological sequence and logical completeness. The creation of higher educational institutions in Cherkasy and Uman, as well as their activities at the initial stage, are studied. Cherkasy Pedagogical Technical University was established in 1921 and in 1930 became the Cherkasy Institute of Public Education and the development of local history, which was represented by the activities of the bandura band, was going on at the Institute. In 1930, a higher educational institution was established in Uman. These higher educational institutions were established in the era of «Ukrainization», as there was a need for teaching staff, changes in education continued, attention was paid to local history work in secondary schools, so it was necessary to train teachers of local history to implement local history work on the ground. It is also traced that the period of the 1930’s saw the curtailment of «Ukrainization», the cessation of local history activities, and changes in the teaching of social studies. It is concluded that a lot was done during the short period of «Ukrainization», namely the active development of education and the creation of new higher education institutions
Keywords
higher education institutions, local history, bandura band, institute of public education, institute of social education, historical memory
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