COMPARATIVE EDUCATION AT THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF EDUCATIONAL SCIENCES OF UKRAINE: RISE, SUCCESSES, CHALLENGES
Journal Title: Education: Modern Discourses - Year 2018, Vol 1, Issue
Abstract
The author analyses the development of comparative education at the National Academy of Educational Sciences of Ukraine. The development is characterized by movement to its professionalization (Wiseman & Matherly, 2009), establishment of an entire system covering functioning specialized units, conducting multi-scope and multi-level research, conferences / seminars, publishing journals, postgraduate training. The research directions at the National Academy of Educational Sciences of Ukraine are characterised, i.e. education phenomena of continuing relevance at all educational levels – school, vocational, higher, adult education. Among the positives of the comparative education at the National Academy of Educational Sciences of Ukraine the author distinguishes the use of the methodology based on the approaches developed by the world-known comparative education scholars, possessing professional skills (foreign languages, ICT skills) by the comparative educators of the Academy; practical orientation of the comparative education research. The following challenges of the comparative education development are named: lack of a comparative education strategy in the National Academy of Educational Sciences of Ukraine; lack of a comparative education centre/association to coordinate the activities within Academy; insufficient attention to the further development of comparative education methodology; insufficient communication at the horizontal level within the Academy; insufficient communication with the relevant units/bodies/centres abroad; virtually no financial support for education scholars of National Academy of Educational Sciences of Ukraine to visit foreign countries for research
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Olena Lokshyna
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- DOI 10.32405/2617-3107-2018-1-6
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