Education and higher education in Ukraine: Perspectives and reflection
RPGE – Política e Gestão Educacional, Araraquara, v. 27, n. 00, e023055, 2023. e-ISSN: 1519-9029
DOI: https://doi.org/10.22633/rpge.v27iesp.2.18464 4
greatly enhanced by the pandemic, the use of new didactic resources and new educational
approaches that make a more elaborate use of the possibilities opened up by technologies in
teaching is also observed, either with the constitution of a teaching based on games
(gamification), or with the use of assistive technologies and integrative practices for better
development of an inclusive education.
Currently, in the Ukrainian context, when talking about inclusiveness in education,
despite also addressing the issue of people with disabilities and assistive media resources that
can improve the quality of education for children and adults who have any type of difficulty or
learning impairment, it is also considered the use of information technologies for the continuity
of distance classes due to the scenario of a military offensive that continues in Ukrainian
territory for more than a year. Such an attack limits the mobility of many Ukrainian citizens
who are in occupied regions, temporary settlements or even places with partially destroyed
infrastructure and also those who managed to leave the country before the start of the war, but
who need to continue their studies. In view of these, the technologies that allow distance
education, despite facing major challenges, especially when considering higher education and
specialties that have proficiencies and skills that cannot in fact be trained digitally (biology,
arts, etc.), become an even more important resource in the country and with a broad
investigative focus in view of the urgent need for its improvement and expansion.
In this scenario, many of the learnings about distance education achieved during the
Covid pandemic are again relevant, as war becomes a restrictive factor that has as much or more
impact than the disease in past years and, unlike the disease, war tends to affect infrastructure
in a more drastic and limiting way. In this scenario, students, teachers, parents and everyone
involved in education systems are faced with a new challenge of how to constitute an effective
education in a scenario of limited mobility, in a scenario of armed conflict and uncertainties,
with the use of knowledge and professionals who were developed during the pandemic, as well
as support from international education networks, these challenges become an increasingly
relevant and worked object of study.
With that, in the midst of its own structural and historical challenges, the incorporation
of new technologies, internationalization processes and the breaking of limits that bring many
positive things but also pose great challenges for national education systems, and the recent
military offensive in its territory, Ukraine finds itself in a difficult position for the development
of its educational system, but many scholars, students, teachers continue their work and
continue to draw, even from the greatest and most disastrous occasions, new ways of working