THE PROBLEM OF HIGHER EDUCATION MANAGEMENT IN THE INTERDISCIPLINARY DISCOURSE OF UKRAINIAN SCIENTISTS (the 90s of the XXth – first quarter of the XXIst centuries)

Authors

  • Boris SAVCHUK PhD hab. (History), Professor of the Department of Pedagogy named after Bogdan Stuparik of Vasyl Stefanyk Precarpathian National University , Ukraine https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2256-0845
  • Olha SNITOVSKA Candidate of Philological Sciences, Associate Professor Department of the Latin and foreign languages, Danylo Halytsky Lviv National Medical University, Ukraine https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3086-9503

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.24919/2519-058X.35.332685

Abstract

Purpose of the Research – to carry out a comprehensive synthesized analysis of the
reflection of foreign experience in the management and reform of higher education in interdisciplinary
research by Ukrainian scholars in the 1990s – the first quarter of the 21st century. The research
methodology consists of methods of comparative studies and historiography (periodization,
ideographic, historical structural, historical comparative, historical actualization, main array
and monographic and selective analysis, analysis of the knowledge system), as well as elements of
metaanalysis, content analysis, discourse analysis). The scientific novelty of the research lies in the
fact that for the first time in historiography, a substantive analysis of the interdisciplinary Ukrainian
discourse on the problem of higher education management in European countries has been carried out and its comparative analysis has been carried out with priority areas of study of the specified problem
in the USA, China, etc. Conclusions. The results of the study indicate that foreign experience in higher
education management became the subject of active studies by Ukrainian scholars in the 1990s – the
first quarter of the 21st century. Their important achievement was a comprehensive understanding of this
problem from the standpoint of various fields of knowledge (public administration, history, economics,
philosophy of education, comparative pedagogical studies); development of an interdisciplinary
methodology for studying the problem; understanding of the complex processes of management of
modernization of national higher education systems in historical retrospect and through the prism of
Ukraine’s integration into the European Higher Education Area and the challenges of globalization.
The features of the dynamics of the studied historiographic process are determined, when in the first
period of the 1990s, a number of works appeared that treated the raised problem within the framework
of post-Soviet methodological constructs, in the second period, under the influence of the processes of
European integration, its study reached a boom in 2006 – 2011/12, and in the third period, there was
a gradual fading of scientific interest and the transfer of the accents of its understanding to the context
of globalization. The narrow territorial vector of studies was manifested in the focus on studying the
history of the development of administrative and reform processes in the countries of Western Europe
and the USA, which led to a certain underestimation, with the exception of Poland, of this experience
accumulated by the countries of Central and Eastern Europe. We see the prospects for further research
in the implementation of a comprehensive comparative analysis of the achievements of Ukrainian and
Polish scholars and scientists from other countries on the problems of higher education policy and its
reform in the retrospective of the 20th – early 21st centuries.
Key words: historiography, higher education management, higher education reform, Western
European countries, Central European countries, Eastern European countries.

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2025-06-26

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SAVCHUK, B. ., & SNITOVSKA, O. . (2025). THE PROBLEM OF HIGHER EDUCATION MANAGEMENT IN THE INTERDISCIPLINARY DISCOURSE OF UKRAINIAN SCIENTISTS (the 90s of the XXth – first quarter of the XXIst centuries). EAST EUROPEAN HISTORICAL BULLETIN, (35), 129–141. https://doi.org/10.24919/2519-058X.35.332685

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