Thinking on the Edge of Globalism. Are there Prospects for Educational and Economic Reforms in Ukraine?

Authors

  • Leonid Orshanskyі Drohobych Ivan Franko State Pedagogical University
  • Ivan Nyshchak Drohobych Ivan Franko State Pedagogical University
  • Nadiia Kuzan Drohobych Ivan Franko State Pedagogical University
  • Halyn Melnyk Drohobych Ivan Franko State Pedagogical University
  • Yuriy Skvarok Drohobych Ivan Franko State Pedagogical University
  • Yaroslav Matvisiv Drohobych Ivan Franko State Pedagogical University

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18662/po/13.4/526

Keywords:

Socio-economic development of the region, synergy of educational-scientific and industrial spheres, knowledge economy, higher education, reforming

Abstract

The article reveals the essential features and conditions of the long-term process of development of competitive innovation economy - knowledge economy on the example of Ukraine, where the dialogue of late postmodernism and early post-industrialism create special regional conditions. The article characterizes education as not just a form of social consciousness and practice, but as a social and cultural engine and simultaneously marker of civilization development level; considers higher education system from the point of view of society request to form specialists of high qualification level and as a result powerful factor of regional economic growth; offers the directions of Ukraine higher education reforming, which still has signs of late postmodernism.

The authors of this article have proved that the synergy of the economic and educational-scientific spheres is capable of changing the global laws of society's existence and returning the course of history to a truly humanistic, technological and divinely attentive course. The development of innovative activities, the introduction of new technologies, which in the long term to overcome the negative trends, primarily related to the need for structural reform of the educational sector in Ukraine and other regions, which are attractors of world change. In particular, cardinal changes require higher education as the most important resource potential that determines the direction of sustainable economic development.

Author Biographies

Leonid Orshanskyі, Drohobych Ivan Franko State Pedagogical University

Doctor of Science in Pedagogy, Full Professor, Head of the Department of Technological and Vocational Education

Ivan Nyshchak, Drohobych Ivan Franko State Pedagogical University

Doctor of Science in Pedagogy, Full Professor, Professor of the Department of Technological and Vocational Education

Nadiia Kuzan, Drohobych Ivan Franko State Pedagogical University

Candidate of Science in Pedagogy, Associate Professor, Docent of the Department of Technological and Vocational Education

Halyn Melnyk, Drohobych Ivan Franko State Pedagogical University

Candidate of Science in Pedagogy, Associate Professor, Docent of the Department of Technological and Vocational Education

Yuriy Skvarok, Drohobych Ivan Franko State Pedagogical University

Candidate of Technical Sciences, Associate Professor, Docent of the Department of Technological and Vocational Education

Yaroslav Matvisiv, Drohobych Ivan Franko State Pedagogical University

Candidate of Science in Pedagogy, Associate Professor, Senior Lecturer of the Department of Technological and Vocational Education

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2022-11-29

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Orshanskyі L., Nyshchak, I., Kuzan, N., Melnyk, H., Skvarok, Y., & Matvisiv, Y. (2022). Thinking on the Edge of Globalism. Are there Prospects for Educational and Economic Reforms in Ukraine?. Postmodern Openings, 13(4), 427-447. https://doi.org/10.18662/po/13.4/526

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