Soviet and Post-Soviet Outlooks: Overcoming Conflict Situations in the Educational Space of Independent Ukraine
Journal Title: Українознавство - Year 2018, Vol 4, Issue 69
Abstract
The article draws attention to the fact that after the collapse of the USSR as a geopolitical entity and gaining its independence in 1991, Ukraine faced the situation of choosing the direction for its further development, in which, on the one hand, it had to build a modern, socially efficient and economically developed state, while on the other, realize the important sociocultural potential formed in the past. The author of the article emphasizes that the only way to cope with the outcomes of the outlook crisis is to try a new set of worldview standpoints, new educational ideals based on new credible historical sources, which would dispel the existing historical myths and help overcome the Soviet pantheon of heroes and educational values. The article reveals main directions in overcoming the conflict situations in the Ukrainian society between the Soviet and post-Soviet worldviews in the educational space of the independent Ukraine, based on the preservation of national memory, considering the mistakes of the past, and taking active actions for the defense of the state; the formation of new sacred places of historical memory, a new indigenous pantheon of Ukrainian historical figures of state, military and cultural-religious activity; studying and implementing international, all-Ukrainian and regional experience in honoring the memory of Ukrainian heroes; reprogramming the content of national patriotic education with an emphasis on new educational ideals, new values, and ideological standpoints. Particular attention is paid to the introduction of Ukrainian studies principles in the education and upbringing of the younger generation – a powerful way to eliminate post-totalitarian approaches toward thinking and learning.
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Svitlana Boiko
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- EP ID EP452143
- DOI 10.30840/2413-7065.4(69).2018.153568
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