DIGITALIZATION OF EDUCATIONAL AND SCIENTIFIC PROCESSES IN THE UKRAINIAN PUBLIC DISCOURSE (1991 – 2023)

Authors

  • Volodymyr KOMAR PhD hab. (History), Professor, Head of the Department of History of Central and Eastern Europe and Special Branches of Historical Science, Vasyl Stefanyk Precarpathian National University, Ukraine https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5475-5084
  • Kostiantin OKSIUTENKO PhD hab. (Law), doctoral student of V. M. Koretsky Institute of State and Law , Ukraine https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0962-500X

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.24919/2519-058X.29.292933

Abstract

The purpose of the research is to carry out a comprehensive study on the educational and scientific processes digitization features in Ukraine and its reflection in the Ukrainian public opinion in the context of educational reforms and socio-political processes in our country. The methodology of the research is based on the principles of historicism, systematicity and objectivity in the approach to covering the events of the past based on a comprehensive study of sources and scientific literature. General scientific (systematization, typology, retrospection) and special historical (problematic chronological, historical comparative, critical analytical, biographical) methods have been used to solve the tasks. The scientific novelty consists in the fact that the digitalization of the educational and scientific process was considered through the prism of the public reaction to the innovations of central authorities and its attempts to modernize the educational sphere in line with the leading European trends in education and science for the first time in the Ukrainian scientific opinion. The Conclusion. It has been stated that the process of the educational sphere digitalization in Ukraine started at the turn of the 20th and 21th centuries, although during this period there was a lack of (a) proper material and technical base in secondary and higher education and (b) qualified personnel capable of working in a new educational paradigm. It has been noted that the society was not ready for the revolutionary transformations in education, which were based on digitalization and tended to the post-Soviet model of organizing the educational process. It has been emphasiyed that only during the last decade, especially during the coronavirus pandemic, digital technologies (cloud technologies) became the part of an everyday life at secondary and higher schools, and on a level with traditional education, society begun to use non-traditional and innovative products (electronic textbooks, distance-learning courses, electronic libraries, etc.).

Key words: Ukraine, digitalization, education, science, public discourse, computerization, information and communication technologies, innovations, educational process.

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