Educational Biography as an Effective Tool for Preserving and Forming the Historical Memory of the Nation: Some Theoretical Notes from Practical Studios

The article reflects the author’s approaches to the theoretical justifications for modernizing biographical studios, in particular biographies of scientists and representatives of the educational sphere of independent Ukraine. The article outlines the views of foreign researchers in the field of intellectual biographical studies, which is recognized and classified as interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary research that provides the subject of biography with its own proper space. Based on the discursive analysis of numerous Ukrainian and foreign sources, the author bases her theoretical understanding of the phenomenon of “historical memory” on the ideas of American researchers, according to whom the concept of “historical memory” reflects the way in which groups, collectives and nations construct (create) special narratives about historical periods; historical memory underlie the social and political personality of identity. The purpose of the article is to highlight some theoretical and practical generalizations obtained in the process of creating scientific biographies of modern scientists and teachers; to substantiate the feasibility of a wider use of the potential of mass memorial and biographical events in the educational sphere as one of the ways of forming historical memory in children and young people, which correlates with the modern policy of national security of Ukraine in the context of Russian aggression and information warfare. The opinion is defended that within the framework of the reconstruction of the main stages of the creative path of a person in a biographical study, it is necessary to reveal and argue its subjectivity in the “categories of personal freedom” (G. Ball), individually personal, certain psycho-emotional features, to characterize its intersubjective relationships, which significantly affects on creative activity. It is proved that it is also advisable to determine the existence of a person in the lives of other people, its influence on the fate of contemporaries, colleagues.