Introducing the Ukrainian educator Antonina Ivanivna Hendrykhivska.
Antonina Ivanivna Hendrykhivska was born in 1885 in Starobil district of Kharkiv province. The future scientist and head of the pre-school education department studied at the Ukrainian Pedagogical Research Institute at the Second Kharkiv Girls’ Gymnasium, at the Froebel Pedagogical Courses, and at the Higher Women’s Course in Kharkiv.
In 1901 Antonina Ivanivna Hendrykhivska moved to the Kryvorizka mine because her husband had been sent there for participating in a student riot. There, Antonina Ivanivna Hendrykhivska worked in various children’s institutions, kindergartens, playgrounds and schools for children with disabilities. In 1906 she moved to the Kachovsky district (Voznesensky mine), where she worked for two years as head of a school in one of the mines.
Antonina Ivanivna Hendrykhivska devoted her scientific and pedagogical activity to the development of the theory and methodology of pre-school education, to work with children with disabilities and to the study of children’s movement in Ukraine. Based on her research, she proposed the establishment of summer playgrounds for children near kindergartens.
In the post-war period, Antonina Ivanivna Hendrykhivska’s name disappeared. Her further activities and fate are still unknown. The date of her death and place of burial are also unknown.
Photos from the Pedagogical Museum of Ukraine
Photographs from the Pedagogical Museum of Ukraine
Information prepared by Vitalina Kuznietsova, Curator of the Collection of the Lithuanian Museum of Education
