THE PROBLEM OF IMPLEMENTING THE HISTORICAL EXPERIENCE OF PLAST EDUCATION IN THE MODERN REALITIES

Abstract

The article examines the complexity, ambiguity and problem of using the historical experience of upbringing in Plast in modern work with children and youth. For modern social and out-of-school pedagogy, the experience of Plast organization is of significant scientific and practical interest, which, under difficult socio-political conditions, demonstrated significant potential for supplementing and developing the intellectual, spiritual, and physical development of children and adolescents, which was carried out by the school, family, and church and other social institutions. Many tasks, which were successfully solved by Plast under various social conditions and state-political regimes, have become especially topical for the modern youth environment. It is about forming an active life position, maintaining a healthy lifestyle, insensitivity to narcotic substances, nurturing feelings of collectivism and mutual responsibility, preserving ethnocultural tolerance, eradicating various «defects of the national character» and solving other educational tasks that are relevant both in the ХХ and XXI century. Under the socio-political conditions prevailing in the Western Ukrainian lands in the interwar period, Plast gained exceptional importance in the national-patriotic education of youth, which clearly did not coincide (contradicted) with the state educational policy. The development of Plast movement in the Western Ukrainian lands in 1911-1939 certifies that it’s historical experience and practice meet the tasks and can be effectively used in the formation of the growing generation of modern Ukraine.