PEDAGOGICAL LOVE AND THE IDEA OF EDUCATING BY VASYL SUKHOMLYNSKYI

Abstract

The author proposes and develops a thesis about love as a significant value in contemporary pedagogy.
The author shows the meaning of love in educational relationships and its role in the development
of the individual and his / her personality. The author also indicates educational trends with a different
approach to love phenomenon in the context of its meaning in the education of young generation
(“pedagogical engineering”, educational permissiveness, personalistic / humanistic pedagogy). To justify
the thesis on the meaning of love in educational relationships, the author refers to the pedagogy of heart
and pedagogy of joy by Vasyl Sukhomlynskyi.
A brief description of the directions and metapoception of the individual and his development
offer a different vision of the person. In the first two (authoritarianism and associated socialization
and permissivism and the associated liberal approach), the vision of the individual and educational
relations is, of course, scarce or constricted, which opposes the person either to himself or to the world
in which he lives. Approaches to education are deprived of pedagogical love as a means of upbringing,
and this leads to the fact that love ceases to be one of its goals. In the case of the latter (humanistic,
personalistic) direction, this vision is most closely related to the integral approach to man and his
development.
Pedagogy of heart and joy, which Vasyl Sukhomlynskyi realized through his works and in pedagogical
practice, remains relevant, moreover, it finds confirmation in many conceptions of education, which
emphasizes: a) the idea of “upbringing for love and through love”; b) the idea of “education through love”;
c) limiting its implementation in educational contact. Pedagogical love is the attitude of the educator
to the pupil, which leads to the disclosure of his potential (upbringing “through love”), and the most
important part of the potential is the ability to make love to others, that is, the art of love (education
to love). Love is an inalienable human need in both of its dimensions: give and brothers — love
and be loved. The formation of a person takes place “through love, a person is realized “in love”, but this
process is due to two basic mechanisms: 1) that in order to be able and learn to love, one must love
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to be transmitted to the future (only the person whom he loved can to teach love of others); 2) to love
others, you must first love yourself, and this is only possible when we are loved (if I do not like, perhaps I do
not deserve it, so I can not accept).