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Doctor of Philological Sciences, Professor of the Department of Elementary Education and Educational Innovations
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6863-1736 https://www.webofscience.com/wos/author/record/ABB-2004-2021 https://scholar.google.com.ua/citations?hl=uk&imq=Тетяна%20Качак&user=G6yFy5QAAAAJ e-mail: tetiana.kachak@pnu.edu.ua |
Doctor of Philological Sciences, Professor of the Department of Elementary Education and Educational Innovations of Vasyl Stefanyk Precarpathian National University, winner in the nomination Young Scientist of the Year (2012), laureate of the Myroslav Stelmakhovich Pedagogical Award (2022).
Expert and jury in the Literature for Children and Youth nomination for literary competitions and awards (Big Hedgehog, Coronation of the Word, Kalmius, Book Award “Espresso: Reader’s Choice”, All-Ukrainian Literary Award named after Vsevolod Nestaykо), author and organizer of promotion project children’s reading (“Creative interactive reading”, “Literary Cavalier”, “Literary Academy”, etc.).
Member of the International Research Society For Children’s Literature (IRSCL), Head of the Ivano-Frankivsk branch of the Ukrainian Research Center of Children and Youth Literature
Editor-in-chief of the scientific journal “Children’s literature: interdisciplinary discourse” (https://journals.pnu.edu.ua/index.php/clid/about). Member of the editorial board, editor and compiler of individual issues of the scientific journal “Literature. Children. Time”.
She is the author of the monographs “Trends in the development of Ukrainian prose for children and adolescents of the beginning of the XXI century”, “Artistic features of Ukrainian women’s prose of the 80-90s of the XX century”, textbooks “Ukrainian Literature for Children and Youth” (2016, 2018, 2024), “Foreign Literature for Children”(2014, co-authored), “Academic rhetoric” (2024), “Digital Tools of Literary Education in Primary School” (2024), “Literary Education of primary school students” (2024), “Ukrainian Literature. Textbook for the 5th grade of NUSH” (2024, co-authored O. Tebeshevska) and educational and methodological manuals for students and publications of a literary, scientific-methodical and literary-critical nature.
Within working hours, Tetiana Kachak conducts research work “Literature for children and youth and IT technologies in modern linguistic and literary education” (state registration number in MES of Ukraine 0123U103692; 2023 – 2028).
Her work includes lectures and teaching support for thecourses “Children’s Literature and Methods of Teaching Literary Reading”, “Literary Education of primary school students”, “Digital Tools of Literary Education in Primary School”, “Academic Rhetoric”, “Foreign Children’s Literature”; webinars and advanced training courses for teachers, lecturers of general, vocational and higher education institutions.
Research topics – “Artistic and aesthetic paradigm of modern Ukrainian prose for children and youth”, “Literary education and children’s reading”, “Digital tools of literary education”.
The object of scientific interest is the theory, history and criticism of Ukrainian and foreign literature for children and youth; comparative analysis of national literature for children; literary education of schoolchildren and students; implementation of IT technologies in language and literature education.
Tetiana Kachak reads the course “Children’s Literature and Methods of Teaching Literary Reading”, “Literary education of primary school students”, “Academic rhetoric”, directs course and master’s works.
Under the leadership of Tetiana Kachak, in 2018, student Andriana Yamnych (III place), in 2019 – Liliya Luzhna (III place), in 2020 – Iryna Strelchenko (I place), in 2021 – Nataliya Fedora (III place), in 2024 – Khrystyna Lenko (II place)and Tetiana Dutchak (I place) became prize-winners of the All-Ukrainian competition of student scientific works.
Tetiana Kachak created and manages the student research group “Research Center of Children and Youth Literature”. As part of the group’s work, students prepare projects and write scientific papers devoted to the problems of interpretation of contemporary children’s literature, development of children’s reading, methods of teaching literary reading, promotion of children’s books, etc. The results of scientific work with students are the participation of members of the circle in scientific conferences, scientific and methodological seminars, published articles in collections of scientific works (“Actual problems of language and literary education and artistic and aesthetic development of younger schoolchildren”, “Information bulletin of the department of professional methods and technologies of primary of education”, “Educational innovation. Innowacje edukacyjne: Ukrainian-Polish collection of student research papers” etc.)
As part of the Center’s activities, various events are held to popularize reading and develop the reading culture of children and youth. “Creative interactive reading”, “Literary quests”, meetings with contemporary writers Zirka Menzatyuk, Maria Morozenko, Vasyl Teremko, Serhii Hrydin, Oleksandr Gavrosh, Olena Ryzhko, Valya Zakhabura, Andriy Bachynskyi, Oksana Saiko, Stepan Protsyuk, Natalya Trish, Roksolana Zharkova, Halyna Rys and other writers within the “Literary Academy” project, presentation game “Literary Cavalierka”.
The “Literary Cavalierka” is the author’s project of Tetiana Kachak, aimed at the development of children’s and youth reading, the popularization of contemporary Ukrainian books, and is implemented with the aim of drawing society’s attention to the problems of the formation of the culture of the young generation.