Providing Quality Education to School-Age Children in Times of War in Ukraine: A Netnographic Analysis

• Authors: Oleksandr Malykhin , Nataliia Aristova , Julia Bondarchuk

Abstracts

EN

The main objective of this study is to clarify strategic directions aimed at adapting the system of general secondary education to new conditions of teaching and learning and minimising educational losses both in times of war and in the post-war period in Ukraine, on the one hand, and presenting and communicating our specific study to an international audience through describing main activities within each strategic direction identified, on the other hand. The authors employed a netnographic approach for collecting information posted on the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine’s official website on the topic of providing quality education to school-age children in war in Ukraine between February 24 and June 30, 2022. The data concerning providing quality education to school-age children in times of war in Ukraine were collected for more than four months, from February 24, 2022 to June 30, 2022. The authors selected 294 news posts that met the selection criteria for further analysis out of 824 news posts available on the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine website during the chosen period. Their analysis and summarisation enabled us to clarify eight main strategic directions, namely, official statements by the Minister of Education and Science of Ukraine, External Independent Assessment, support of the international community for providing educational opportunities to school-age children outside Ukraine, organising education in times of war, work with teachers in times of war, providing technical support to organising education, out-ofschool education, physical and sports education.

Keywords

EN

educational losses; education in times of war; general secondary education; quality education; strategic directions; general secondary schools

• Publisher: Wydawnictwo Adam Marszałek
• Journal: The New Educational Review
• Year: 2022
• Volume: 69
• Pages: 180-190

Dates

published

2022

Contributors

author

Oleksandr Malykhin

• Institute of Pedagogy of NAES of Ukraine, Kyiv

• https://orcid.org/0000000160426298

author

Nataliia Aristova

• Institute of Pedagogy of NAES of Ukraine, Kyiv

• https://orcid.org/0000000209438039

author

Julia Bondarchuk

• Kyiv National University of Technologies and Design, Kyiv

• https://orcid.org/0000000248518701

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Identifiers

DOI

10.15804/tner.2022.69.3.14

Biblioteka Nauki

2140614