System of Physical Education in Bukovinia (Xix - Xx Century) and Possibilities of Its Use at the Modern Stage

The article deals with the aspects and factors that influenced the development of students’ physical education of public schools in Bukovina, and the peculiarities of education development of teachers’ physical education. The purpose of the article: analysis and generalisation of the historical stages of the system of physical education in Bukovina and the possibilities of its use at the present stage of development of school physical education. To achieve the objectives of research, we have used the method of obtaining retrospective information, namely the theoretical analysis of materials of periodicals, articles of modern periodicals, classification of archival documents, chronological methods. Obtained during the search data provided us with the opportunity to distinguish four stages of students’ physical education development of public schools in Bukovina during investigated period. It is important to note that these stages relied predominantly on the ways of organizing physical education in the land; which at the appointed time was part of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy, - legal, scientific and methodological, material and technical basis. An important contribution of modern pedagogical Ukraine science development could be the synthesis of Bukovina educators’ achievements in the second half of the nineteenth and first decades of the twentieth century. In conditions of complex political, economic, socio-cultural transformations in the empire Bukovinian teachers advocated and developed the priority directions of education. During the studied period on the obtained results it is possible to distinguish four stages students’ development of physical education in public schools of Bukovina. Noteworthy that these stages mainly relied on the ways of organizing physical education in the province. The history of public school in Bukovina certify that the educational-structural innovations took place on the European continent of the studied age and relied on local traditions did not always find support in Bukovinians.