COMPARATIVE EDUCATION IN UKRAINE: TRAJECTORY OF DEVELOPMENT

Abstract

In the article the author retraces the comparative education development in Ukraine under the influence of social and political landmarks with an attempt to prove its correlation with global comparative education direction in modern times. The dialectics-based analysis of comparative education allowed the author to talk about the existence of a certain way of this movement that conventionally was considered as a trajectory. An approach to consider the comparative education development through the lens of a conventional trajectory format made it possible to consider its movement as a line with plurality of points where an object resided from time to time in its movement; and to study the comparative education development as a movement in space and time under the influence of which this development took place. The comparative education development trajectory in Ukraine was analyzed during of Tsarist Russia, of the USSR and of independent Ukraine. The author makes conclusions that the comparative education development trajectory in independent Ukraine gradually approaching comparative education trajectory abroad owing to the openness of Ukraine to the world, its orientation to the Western vector of development. The author highlights the peculiarity of the Ukrainian comparative education today, i.e. dynamism that is explained by the relevance of this field of pedagogical science. Modernization of the national education, its progression towards the European and world educational space generates a demand for comparative education studies, actualizes its mission in Ukraine, intensifies the dynamic development of its methodological bases and infrastructure. The authors pays attention to the following methodological issues that remain polemical for comparative educators in Ukraine, i.e. selection of methods for research; comparative education delivery in relation to the national education demands in terms of the national education progression correlation with the world education trends/patterns of development; forecast for educational policy makers in Ukraine.