UPBRINGING OF ORPHANS AND CHILDREN LEFT WITHOUT PARENTAL CARE (HISTORICAL ASPECT)

Abstract

The article deals with a problem of raising orphans and children left without parental care in the historical aspect. The research materials include articles and reports by outstanding scientists and teachers of the 18th and 20th centuries. The active spread of social institutions for disadvantaged children in the 18th century was inextricably linked with the socio-economic ill-being of the population. According to the normative documents of the beginning of the 18th century, not only the right to life and food, but also the maintenance of education were laid down in children’s social institutions. The presented historical period is an important stage in the accumulation of experience, traditions, the content of the upbringing of children, and also provides the basis for understanding educational practice at the present time. The author emphasizes that scientists and teachers who devoted themselves to the education of children of different categories were driven by high humanistic ideals. It was established that the main feature of education in social institutions was professional orientation, but other aspects of education were not excluded.