The Biographical Source as a Factor in Shaping National Artistic Traditions in Education and Culture

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https://doi.org/10.63931/ijchr.v7iSI1.100

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art education, autobiography, biographical source, cultural memory, national tradition, pedagogical narrative

Abstract

The article explores the role of the biographical source as a factor in the formation of national and artistic traditions in education and culture. The author analyzes the ways in which autobiographical texts, letters, memoirs, and diaries of cultural figures, artists, and educators transmit values, model educational systems, and preserve collective memory. Considerable attention is paid to conceptual approaches to the interpretation of biographical writing as a form of cultural heritage and a mechanism for decolonial rethinking of traditions in global and local contexts. The research methodology included narrative analysis, comparative historical approach, structural and semantic analysis of sources, and the case method. The object of analysis was the autobiographical documents of six European and world cultural figures, on the basis of which the role of personal texts in the formation of artistic, educational, and philosophical paradigms was systematized. The theoretical framework is based on interdisciplinary works in cultural studies, pedagogy, and identity history. The results of the study show that the biographical source is a tool for recording experience and an effective means of forming a tradition as a system of intergenerational transmission of knowledge, aesthetic norms and pedagogical models. It is noted that the narrative structure of such sources forms a cultural identity and ensures the integration of personal experience into the national discourse. The article proposes an analytical model for interpreting a biographical text as a dynamic component of the educational and cultural heritage.

Author Biographies

  • Alla Lytvynenko, Candidate of Art Criticism, Docent, Associate Professor, Department of Culturology, Philosophy and Museology, Faculty of Technologies and Design, Poltava V. G. Korolenko National Pedagogical University

    Candidate of Art Criticism, Docent, Associate Professor, Department of Culturology, Philosophy and Museology, Faculty of Technologies and Design, Poltava V. G. Korolenko National Pedagogical University

  • Olena Ilchenko, Doctor of Pedagogical Sciences, Professor of the Department of General Pedagogy and Andragogy, Faculty of Computer Science, Mathematics, Physics and Economics, Poltava V. G. Korolenko National Pedagogical University

    Doctor of Pedagogical Sciences, Professor of the Department of General Pedagogy and Andragogy, Faculty of Computer Science, Mathematics, Physics and Economics, Poltava V. G. Korolenko National Pedagogical University

  • Liudmyla Chystiakova, Doctor of Pedagogical Sciences, Professor, Acting Head of the Department of Computer Sciences, Programming, Artificial Intelligence and Technological Education, Faculty of Mathematics, Natural Sciences and Technology, Volodymyr Vynnychenko Central Ukrainian State University

    Doctor of Pedagogical Sciences, Professor, Acting Head of the Department of Computer Sciences, Programming, Artificial Intelligence and Technological Education, Faculty of Mathematics, Natural Sciences and Technology, Volodymyr Vynnychenko Central Ukrainian State University

  • Mykola Blyzniuk, Doctor of Pedagogical Sciences, Professor of the Department of Professional Education, Design and Life Safety, Faculty of Technology and Design, Poltava V. G. Korolenko National Pedagogical University

    Doctor of Pedagogical Sciences, Professor of the Department of Professional Education, Design and Life Safety, Faculty of Technology and Design, Poltava V. G. Korolenko National Pedagogical University

  • Valentina Tsyna, Doctor of Pedagogical Sciences, Professor of the Department of General Pedagogy and Andragogy, Faculty of Computer sciences, Mathematics, Physics and Economics, Poltava V. G. Korolenko National Pedagogical University

    Doctor of Pedagogical Sciences, Professor of the Department of General Pedagogy and Andragogy, Faculty of Computer sciences, Mathematics, Physics and Economics, Poltava V. G. Korolenko National Pedagogical University

  • Anna Fastivets, Doctor of Pedagogical Sciences, Associate Professor, Department of Physical Education, Academician Yuriy Bugay International Scientific and Technical University

    Doctor of Pedagogical Sciences, Associate Professor, Department of Physical Education, Academician Yuriy Bugay International Scientific and Technical University

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2025-07-19

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Vol. 7 No. SI1 (2025): Special Issue 1: From Tradition to Transmission: The Transformation of Culture and Social Life in the Digital Age

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The Biographical Source as a Factor in Shaping National Artistic Traditions in Education and Culture. (2025). International Journal on Culture, History, and Religion, 7(SI1), 52-68. https://doi.org/10.63931/ijchr.v7iSI1.100

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