Modernization of school education in Ukraine: ways of internationalization

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authors: Olga Kyvliuk, Galіna Zhukova

Urgency of the research. Ukraine’s education is on the path of reform and European integration, faced with a large number of problems and failures. It, though slowly, is heading towards international recognition and occupation of its pivotal role in the global education system. Actualization of issues of internationalization of educational process at school is caused by changes in the state educational policy and educational development strategies.

Target setting. Recently, the problems of internationalization of education are more highlighted in studies on the sphere of higher education. But if education is a process of consistent, systematic and continuous, then the question arises of the propaedeutic of the internationalization of education at the school level.

Actual scientific researches and issues analysis. Scientists M.Boychenko, J.Knight, A.Nitenko, A.Sbrueva, A.Chirva and others worked on issues of internationalization of higher education. Problems of the modernization of education werestudied by G.Dmitrenko, O.Savchenko, M.Tadeeva and others.

The research objectives. To explore the ways of internationalization of educational processes within school education and prospects for its modernization in Ukraine.

The statement of basic materials. Having analysed the internationalization of the educational process of the middle level education in Ukraine and compared the results with similar processes abroad, the ways of internationalization of school education in Ukraine were revealed through modernization and convergence. The internationalization of school education in Ukraine is closely linked to the processes of globalization, European integration, international cooperation, mobility, modernization, autonomy and development.

Conclusions. Among the ways the internationalization of schooling in Ukraine are allocated: educational and academic teaching staff mobility and improve their competencies through self-education, international training systems, training and implementation of the principles of continuing education; active introduction of distance learning in school education with the use of information and communication technologies; depth study of foreign languages and the teaching of subject disciplines in foreign languages at school on the principle of interdisciplinarity; integration and adaptation of state school curricula and the catalogue to international standards; the implementation of European cultural and educational norms into Ukrainian realities.

Keywords: modernization, internationalization, school education, distance learning, globalization, eurointegration, educational process.

 

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