Педагогические науки/4.
Стратегические направления реформирования системы образования
Bobrytska V. I.
Professor, Doсtor of Pedagogy, Professor of the
educational policy department of National Pedagogical
Dragomanov University, Ukraine
Educational Policy of Ukraine as a Crucial Problem of Ukrainian State Formation
Problems in educational area of European countries and as well of Ukraine are the objective and natural consequences of the problems of civilization while
having crisis tendencies in the whole socium it is clear that the common crisis signs will also appear at educational level which is a component of the society. But education should not be a passive participant in solving the social problems, it can and has to be a modernizing locomotive which
provides a
state with reforms and valid perspectives of its development.
According to this the goal of the scientific prospect is the analysis of topical problems of state policy of
Ukraine in educational area as a crucial problem of the state formation. Achieving
of our goal will promote the solution of the research tasks,
which are the emission of the scope, determination of the dynamics and the
generalisation of the problems of state educational policy in terms of the
development of modern educational area in Ukraine.
First of all we admit that at present the question of state policy in educational area becomes more and more actively discussed in pedagogical periodic and by the public. This is
urgent because the main motive for the state educational policy establishment
and development is the practical needs of the system of education. Satisfaction
of the needs is impossible without constructive comprehension of the scope of
problems of educational policy in terms of modern educational area of Ukraine,
mastering of inner and world experience of educational problems’ solving in the
context of social and economic transformations. That is why the development of
educational policy is one of the crucial problems of Ukrainian state formation.
Scientists,
educators, society are interested in some issues. Like if the state interests
are common to the interests of society in the strategy and tactics of education
development. Are the notions “educational policy of society”, “state
educational policy”, “national educational policy” identical in triad
“society-nation-state”? Is the state
educational policy national by its form and content? Does it influence “the realization of the civil right
for education”? It is obvious that
these issues need to be studied by theorists and practitioners of educational
policy.
According
to this the educational policy is an area of interrelations of different actors
of state governance, social groups, individuals as for exploiting governing
institutions for realization of their own interests and needs in one of the
most important spheres of social life – in education; quite clear becomes an
interaction and functional synchronization of state and social processes in
educational area, becomes confirmed the thesis that the problems of modern
educational policy of Ukraine are compelled with objective reality, influence
of state to educational environment [1].
To our minds the modern approach to the determination of main areas of the state policy in the sphere of higher education means
the understanding of its goal which has to be simultaneously oriented at social demand implementation at training of specialists in educational sphere, forming a
personality of a citizen of democratic society, person’s cultural
development, competitiveness and demand at world labour-market. Thus higher education is an institution
that has to train highly qualified personnel as well as to provide
socialization and professionalization of a person, purchasing of his/her key
competences. Though these components of the goal are of different validity
ignoring of them will make a modern higher education the absolute which is out
a real life, “thing-in-itself”. It happens so because a state does not need to
educate a specialist that makes no contribution its development and prosperity [1].
While
analyzing the educational policy of Ukraine in the context of solving the crucial problems of national state development, we consider that urgent is the realization of the principle of educational priority and keeping the stable official authorities’ line which is directed at providing the system of education functioning in the state according to world standards.
Thus the realization of the National Strategy of the development of education
in Ukraine in 2012-2012 [2] and estimation of the mechanisms of its realization
become essential.
Totality
and dynamics of problems of modern educational policy of Ukraine, comprehension and analyses of them in the content of crucial problems
of national state
formation gives us a possibility to formulate some theoretical generalizations:
1.
Integral components of the research of state educational policy of
Ukraine, its conceptualization and development strategy have to take into
account peculiarities and regularity of modern science phenomenology, regard to
the dynamics of educational development in context of interaction with
political format of social life.
2.
Urgent task of educational policy at modern stage of development of system of education of Ukraine is reaching the appropriate quality of education, its correspondence to urgent and future needs of a person, society, the state. National
education has to initiate novel approaches that will correspond with the
challenges of postindustrial society, its dynamics, informatisation,
technologisation, need in competitive and mobile specialists.
3.
Solving the problems of educational area as a result of a congruency of educational policy to the needs of a person, society, the state will be determined by realization of political elite the instrumental-functional mission, possibilities of education as well as
by the activity of social institution of education.
The size of the thesis does not let us to make a
panoramic analysis of urgent problems of educational policy of Ukraine but we have realized an attempt to comprehend at the basis of our own thoughts, ideas and experiences that is in the scope of pedagogical reflections. Promising
scientific survey is the study of the problems of educational policy in
terms of postindustrial society.
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Національна
стратегія розвитку освіти в Україні на 2012-2021 рр., ухвалена 10 вересня 2012
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