HISTORY OF EDUCATION AND PEDAGOGY AND ITS IMPORTANCE
Abstract
Education and pedagogical science have several thousand years of history. On this path, pedagogy gradually turned from disparate views, ideas and theoretical positions into a science. The development of educational institutions was a diverse, contradictory and ambiguous process. The study of the history of education and pedagogical teachings is an important condition for the formation of a general and pedagogical culture of a future specialist, because it gives knowledge about the process of development of the theory and practice of education and upbringing and contributes to the formation of a worldview and pedagogical professionalism. [1, c.5] History of pedagogy and education as an academic discipline has long been an integral part of teacher education, it is one of the oldest branches pedagogical knowledge, which stood out within pedagogy already in the middle of the 19th century. The history of pedagogy and education studies the development of the theory and practice of education, upbringing and training in various historical epochs, including the present, in the context of its historical development. At the same time, historical and pedagogical research is not limited to a chronological review of the phenomena of the past and a story about great teachers or great pedagogical ideas. The main task of science is to find out what was the role of education in the societies of past eras and why philosophers and educators created certain theories in a certain period of time.