I. YAKOVLEV CHUVASH STATE PEDAGOGICAL UNIVERSITY BULLETIN

activity, educational activity, pedagogical heritage, pedagogical ideas, I. Yakovlev

The article examines the system of education of the Chuvash people developed by the great Chuvash enlightener I. Ya. Yakovlev; reveals his idea of spreading pedagogical, spiritual and moral, orthodox, sanitary-hygienic, medical, agricultural, biological, natural, historical, agro-zootechnical, meteorological, craft and other knowledge among students and peasants. It also discusses the educational activities of I. Ya. Yakovlev aimed at the desire to help the Chuvash people in their aspiration to a bright future – education. The article analyzes archival materials and scientific works reflecting the pedagogical heritage of the Chuvash patriarch. It states that I. Yakovlev developed and put into practice his system of enlightenment of the people: the teaching of academic disciplines in the Simbirsk Chuvash Teacher’s school was conducted in the native language, and educational work was based on scientific psychology and pedagogy with the use of traditional culture of upbringing and education; future teachers were among the first researchers of the folk experience of education in moral, mental, aesthetic, labor and physical development of the individual, distributors of works of oral folk art.

The subject of this study is the educational heritage of I. Yakovlev, which absorbed all the best that the Chuvash people have accumulated for centuries and millennia in the process of educating the younger generation. The research revealed the directions of the patriarch's enlightenment activities: studying of the state of education of other peoples; determination of the goals and objectives of education and upbringing of the people; training teachers at the Simbirsk Chuvash school; an integrated approach to the collection, study, preservation and dissemination of various layers of spiritual culture of the Chuvash; organization and training of students in agriculture Simbirsk Chuvash Teacher’s School, dissemination of agricultural knowledge among the population; creation of blacksmithing, locksmithing and carpentry and turning crafts at the Simbirsk Chuvash school.

Харитонов Михаил Григорьевич – доктор педагогических наук, профессор, декан психолого-педагогического факультета Чувашского государственного педагогического университета им. И. Я. Яковлева, г. Чебоксары, Россия, https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0111-3763, mgkhar@mail.ru

Кожанов Игорь Владимирович – доктор педагогических наук, доцент, проректор по научной и инновационной работе Чувашского государственного педагогического университета им. И. Я. Яковлева, г. Чебоксары, Россия, https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0088-8532, i.v.k.21@mail.ru