IN SEARCH OF A MODEL: INTERDISCIPLINARY STUDIES OF UKRAINIAN SCHOLARS ON THE POLICY OF EUROPEAN COUNTRIES AND THE USA IN THE SPHERE OF HIGHER EDUCATION (THE END OF THE 20th – THE BEGINNING OF THE 21st CENTURIES)

Boris  SAVCHUK; Olha  SNITOVSKA

doi:10.24919/2519-058X.37.346067

Authors

Boris SAVCHUK PhD hab. (History), Professor of the Department of Pedagogy named after Bogdan Stuparyk, Vasyl Stefanyk Carpathian National University, Ukraine https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2256-0845
Olha SNITOVSKA PhD (Philology), 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.37.346067

Abstract

The purpose of the research is to carry out a synthesized analysis of studies by the Ukrainian scholars that appeared at the end of the 20th and the beginning of the 21st centuries on the policies of European countries and the USA in the field of higher education. The research methodology consists of interdisciplinary methods of analyzing scientific sources – historiographic, comparative, historical and structural, periodization, historical actualization, monographic and selective analysis, knowledge system analysis, discourse analysis, elements of phenomenological and synergistic approaches. The scientific novelty of the study consists in the implementation of a comprehensive, substantive analysis of interdisciplinary studies by the Ukrainian scholars on the issue of policy development in the field of higher education abroad. Conclusions. The analysis of the modern Ukrainian interdisciplinary discourse on the development of foreign policy in the field of higher education, carried out on the basis of the developed two-vector model, revealed the accumulation of a significant array of diverse studies, which collectively reflect the achievements and bottlenecks, gaps in the scientific understanding of the specified issue. The analysis of the dynamics of research through the prism of three specific periods of the historiographical process showed that after the appearance of the first studies in the second half of the 1990s, scientific interest in it in the quantitative dimension of studies reached its highest level in 2001/2 – 2007/8. In 2009 – 2015/16, the increase in the qualitative level of such research was reflected in the emergence of meaningful monographs, dissertations, and analytical articles. The multifaceted architectonics of the historiography of the issue under study found expression in the imposition of the complex dynamics of its development on the synergetic of interdisciplinary discourse, where the theories developed in the fields of philosophy and philosophy of education, public administration, political science, history, law, comparative pedagogy and the methodological approaches intersected and synthesized in the study of foreign policy in the field of higher education in the Ukrainian-centric, Euro-integration, European, country studies, globalist, and comparative directions.

Key words: historiography, interdisciplinary discourse, foreign higher education, Central European countries, Eastern European countries.

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