Kostiuk Hryhorii Sylovych

1899 – 1982

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Hryhorii Sylovych Kostiuk (1899 – 1982) was a Ukrainian psychologist, pedagogue, full member of the Academy of Educational Sciences of the USSR, Honoured Scientist of the Ukrainian SSR, founder of the Ukrainian psychological school, specialist in children’s and pedagogical psychology, head of the Department of Psychology at the Ukrainian Research Institute of Pedagogy, Professor of the Kyiv O. Horkyi Teachers’ Training Institute, one of the founders and director of the Research Institute of Psychology of Ukraine, which became a centre for theoretical, methodological, and applied research regarding psychological problems of thinking and intellectual abilities. He was an author of such textbooks as Psykholohiia (Psychology) and Vikova psykholohiia (Age psychology) for teachers’ training institutes, works on general, children’s and pedagogical psychology, and Narysy z istorii vitchyznianoi psykholohii (Essays on the history of the national psychology) (4-volume set).