NATION-BUILDING PUBLIC POLICY AND GENERAL SECONDARY EDUCATION: UKRAINIAN EXPERIENCE

Abstract

In the context of current socio-political situation around Ukrainian-language school education in Ukraine, the author offers a retrospective analysis of strategic directions of general secondary education development as an important aspect of establishing an independent Ukrainian state. The author also substantiates the preconditions for forming nationally oriented public school policy inextricably related to the status of the Ukrainian language and the strengthening of its functioning (late 1980s – early 1990s). The paper provides the author’s version of strategic directions in general secondary school education in Ukraine in subsequent decades that haven’t lost their potential. These strategic directions include recognition of education, and first of all, school education, as a factor of sovereign statehood, development of civil-state education management, psychologization of education, informatization of the entire field of education.