History of the Pedagogical Faculty of the Drahomanov Ukrainian State University

     The history of the Pedagogical Faculty is closely intertwined with the history of the Drahomanov Ukrainian State University. Its origins date back to the establishment of the Pedagogical Institute at St. Volodymyr University in 1834. Later, this institution continued its development as the Higher Women’s Courses and subsequently became part of the Faculty of Social Education of the Kyiv Institute of Public Education. At that time, the faculty included a School Department that trained specialists for primary education, as well as Preschool and Therapeutic Pedagogy Departments. One of the leading academic units of the Faculty of Social Education was the Department of Pedology. In the 1930s, the faculty was known as the Pedological and Pedagogical Faculty. In 1956, the faculty began training primary school teachers with a full higher pedagogical education. In 1991, the Kyiv State Pedagogical University was established, and the name of Mykhailo Petrovych Drahomanov was restored to the institution. In 1993, it was renamed the Ukrainian State Pedagogical University named after M. P. Drahomanov, and in 1997 the university was granted national status. In 2002, the Institute of Pedagogy and Psychology was established on the academic and methodological foundation of the Pedagogical Faculty. In 2017, it was reorganized into the Faculty of Pedagogy and Psychology, and in 2021 it became the Pedagogical Faculty of the National Pedagogical Dragomanov University. In 2023, the Government of Ukraine adopted a decision to reorganize the National Pedagogical Dragomanov University and establish the Drahomanov Ukrainian State University. Today, the Pedagogical Faculty is one of the leading faculties of the university. The educational process is supported by six departments and more than one hundred lecturers, professors, and associate professors.