Biography of Boris Kovalenko

He graduated from the Law Faculty of St. Petersburg University with a diploma on the “colony for minor offenders” during the civil war with his family left Petrograd to the Smolensk province, where he worked as a rural school teacher. Among his students was then the future writer A. to G. transferred Tif and because of this almost completely lost sight.

Despite this, thanks to his willpower, he worked as a teacher in a rural school for another three years. Kovalenko becomes the head of the school for the blind in Smolensk. He managed not only to restore school and make it one of the best in the country, but also carried out scientific work to search for the most effective methods of teaching blind and visually impaired. Even then, he came to the conclusion that the goals and objectives of the formation of the blind are the same as that of the sighted.

But for the success of working with them, a certain change in the technique of conducting, appropriate equipment and visual aids are required. At the initiative of B. Kovalenko in Smolensk, an experiment was carried out to organize joint, inclusive, training and education of blind and sighted children, first in kindergarten, and then from grade 5 at the school. And yet, despite the positive results, the teacher categorically objected to the abandonment of special schools.

Moreover, he considered it necessary to create schools for visually impaired children. In e gg. Kovalenko they were open. The teacher was invited to work in the LGPI named after Immediately upon arrival at the Faculty of Defectology, he organized and headed the department of Tiflopedagogiki - the department played an important role in the development of correctional pedagogy.

It was still the only specialized department of typhlopedagogy in Russia. The scientist becomes the dean of the defectology faculty. B. Kovalenko attached great importance to the preschool education of blind children. At his insistence, specialized kindergartens are opened in Moscow and Leningrad. They later appeared in other cities.

He organized at the Department of Tiflopedagogiki a methodological bureau for supporting the training of the blind in technical schools and universities of Leningrad. The name of B. Kovalenko is associated with the emergence of an adult rehabilitation system in our country who have lost their eyesight. Together with a group of teachers, he is engaged in preparing for the work of warriors who have lost their vision, followed by their employment.

Usually reluctantly, with an internal protest, the disabled people to study Brill's training agreed. But gradually, mastering a relief-point font, they were convinced of the correctness of this approach and began to believe in their strength. In Leningrad, a boarding school was organized for the military, there the war disabled people had the opportunity to graduate from high school and get a peaceful specialty.

Kovalenko opened courses for the preparation of military -fellow at the university and for intellectual work. During the Great Patriotic War, the boarding school continued to work for the military-handed people, and the Tiflopedagogue teachers, using the Kovalenko methodology, organized a “school on wheels” and taught the blind wounded in blockade hospitals. During the war, B. Kovalenko was evacuated from Leningrad to Perm, where he created the famous courses for the training of blinded troops and published a methodology for the return of adults of the blind to his working life.

In the same year, the “Primary School Program” and “Programs for Blind degenerations” developed with his participation. The latter was especially relevant at that time: schools for blind children in the occupied territories were closed, moreover, many children who lost their vision due to wounds appeared. Herzen and the Department of Tiflopedagogy. Kovalenko, who had many students and followers.

The scientist is working on a new problem - teaching blind children with difficulties in mental and mental development. However, in the city, he was forced to leave the institute in connection with the most severe disease. Nevertheless, the scientist did not leave scientific work, literally repeating the feat of Nikolai Ostrovsky. Kovalenko did a huge work on the formation of the Russian school of Tiflopedagogiki.

He is the author of publications on the problems of teaching blind children and adults. Under his leadership, 7 candidate dissertations for Tiflopedagogika were defended. Basic works: 1. A brief guide to joint training of blind and sighted. The return of the blind to working life. Labor training in schools for the blind. Fundamentals of typhlopedagogy. Links: 1. Metzhentseva G.

to the anniversary of the founder of the domestic typhlopedagogy B. Rozanov V. He deserved an eternal memory. The connection of science with life: on the summer of birth B.