A reminiscence matinee dedicated to the 100th birth anniversary of speech pathologist and educator Arsen Minasyan, the founder of the Chair of Speech Pathology, was held at
Armenian State Pedagogical University on June 11.
On this occasion of the commemorative event, the University hosted the educator’s daughter and grandchildren, his namesake great-grandson and students of the Faculty of Special Education.
The event started at the ASPU museum with an exhibition “The Story of One Letter” which presented the life and creative activity of the special pedagogue, his personal items, letters, photographs, medals, awards and straps –the military insignias he received during World War II.
During the commemorative event, the guests also visited the University’s Reading Hall for Humanitarian Literature where pieces of professional literature authored by Arsen Minasyan were put on display.
A devotee of the sphere, a skilled specialist, humanist and a good person who had a difficult childhood and adolescence… The guests got acquainted with interesting episodes depicting the life and activity of the great professor.
Also, a video call was established with Hovhannes Aghavelyan, a professor at Novosibirsk State Pedagogical University, former head of the Chair of Defectology at ASPU. The latter stressed that special education would not have developed in Armenia but for the efforts of Arsen Minasyan.
Armenouhi Avagyan, Dean of the Faculty of Special Education, ASPU, said the initiative organized by the University’s museum was highly educational. “Man lives as long as he is remembered. Arsen Minasyan is the founder of special pedagogy in Armenia. Our generations, specifically the Faculty, have no right to forget the special educator who laid the foundation of the Faculty.”
Candidate of Pedagogical Sciences, Professor Arsen Minasyan graduated from the Faculty of Pedagogy, ASPU, in 1939. In 1973-1983, he headed the Chair of Pedagogy and Elementary Teaching Methods. In 1983, he founded the Chair of Speech Pathology and headed it until 1992.Minasyan was awarded with a dozen of military and commemorative medals of the Soviet Union, a “Khachatur Abovyan” medal granted by the Ministry of Education of the Armenian SSR, and a badge for “Excellence in Education.”
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