19 October 1915 – 21 March 2000

• Biography
• Bibliography
• Full-text publications about his life and activity
• International Batyshev scientific readings
• Serhii Batyshev awards
• Photo gallery
• Kadom Batyshev secondary school
• House museum of S. Batyshev

Serhii Yakovych Batyshev was a Soviet and Russian pedagogue, Doctor of Pedagogical Sciences, Professor, Academician in vocational education, Hero of the USSR, founder of the discipline ‘Production Pedagogy’, and author of more than 500 research works, among which are monographs, manuals, guidelines, curricula, and research papers.

“Serhii Yakovych Batyshev was a founder of vocational pedagogy. Thousands of scientists and teachers working in the system of vocational education called him the Patriarch of vocational pedagogy. It’s not a hyperbole, it’s the gospel truth.

His life, scientific and pedagogical activity present a special history of a Man who devoted himself to vocational education. For many years of his research and pedagogical activity the Academician S. Ya. Batyshev supported and grounded progressive and prognostic ideas regarding the development of qualified workers’ training system for various fields of economics. He struggled for vocational education to make it a priority in the public policy”.