Konstantin Ushinsky

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KONSTANTIN
USHINSKY
ПОДГОТОВИЛА АСОЯН ОЛЕСЯ ИГОРЕВНА

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WHO IS THIS?
• Konstantin
Ushinsky - Russian
teacher and writer,
credited as the founder
of
scientific pedagogy in
Russia.

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BIOGRAPHY
Konstantin Ushinsky was
born in Tula to a family of a
retired officer.
From 1846 to 1849 he was a
professor at the Demidov
Lyceum in Yaroslavl.
In 1844 Ushinsky graduated from
the Department of Law of Moscow
University.

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WORK AS AN EDITOR
• The Ushinsky earned money by literary work
for thе magazines Sovremennik and Biblioteka
dlya Chteniya.

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WORK AS A TEACHER
• In 1854 Ushinsky became a teacher of Russian
Literature and Law at the Gatchina Orphanage
(Gatchinsky Sirotsky Institut). In 1855-1859 he
became the Inspector at the same institution.

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WORK AT THE INSTITUTE OF NOBLE MAIDENS
• In 1859-1862 Ushinsky was the Inspector of
the Smolny Institute for Noble Maidens in SaintPetersburg, In 1860-1862 he also worked as the
Chief Editor of the Journal of the Department of
Education.

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WORK AT THE END OF LIFE
• At the end of his life Ushynsky mostly acted as a writer
and publicist. He also wrote children's textbooks for
learning reading: Children's World (Detski mir)
and Native Word (Rodnoye slovo). Ushinsky died
in Odesa in 1870 and was buried in Kyiv.

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FAMOUS WORKS
• Ushinsky's magnum opus was his theoretical
work The Human As a Subject of Education:
Pedagogical Anthropology in three volumes,
started in 1867.

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FAMOUS WORKS
• Among Ushinsky's breakthroughs was the new
"Analytic-Synthetic Phonetic Method" for learning
reading and writing, which is still the main method
used in Russian schools

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MEMORIALS
Educational institutions named after
Konstantin Ushinsky:
• South Ukrainian National Pedagogical
University in Odesa, Ukraine
• Yaroslavl State Pedagogical
University in Yaroslavl, Russia
• 1st Simferopol
Gymnasium in Simferopol, Ukraine

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THANKS FOR YOUR ATTENTION!
"Pedagogical experience without science is equivalent to
witchcraft in medicine."
K.Ushinsky