Educational Development Priorities for People With Special Needs in Ukraine

Abstract

The article is an attempt to outline general aspects of educational system reforming for the people with special needs in Ukraine, to disclose concisely the key ways of modernization, and to characterize positive shifts in educational area. The article states that integrative principle of national educational system establishment is in its quality. It describes global changes in special education area occurred during the last years. It is acknowledged that Ukraine is reorganizing educational system in order to bring it into accord with market economy requirements and open democratic society under the theme of enabling equitable access to quality education for all children with special educational needs. The point of education is seen as a main educational system transformation instrument, including special education, on competence principles. It is elucidated that separation from established practice of point structurization based on the substantive principle takes place, and it foresees the adequacy of educational content structure to scientific knowledge branches structure. Within competence attitude, concretization of school subjects' quantity is not a point of special education. Instead, identifying outcomes expected to be recovered on the national level are the point. Its comprehensiveness is reverberated in national standards being implemented in Ukraine.

Psychological support of families of children with special needs in the conditions of the COVID-19 pandemic

“…); a humanistic approach to psychocorrection of personality (G. Ball, A. Maslow, K. Rogers, etc.) 3 .…”

The current state of the system of general secondary education of children with special educational needs in Ukraine

“…In this case, the personalityoriented direction of the educational process for such children is provided by creating for each pupil an individual program of development, adaptation or modification of educational material by the teacher's assistant. Individual correctional and developmental work is carried out, which takes into account the characteristics of the child with special problems" 11,12 .…”

“…According to Article 19 of the Law of Ukraine "About complete general secondary education" participants in the educational process in educational institutions are: pupils, teachers, other employees of institution, parents of pupils, children's assistants. 11 According to the document "List of positions" of pedagogical and scientific-pedagogical workers, approved by the resolution of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine of June 14, 2000 № 963, teacher's assistants are pedagogical workers. The norms of Article 22 of the Law "About complete general secondary education" regarding a pedagogical employee apply to a teacher's assistant.…”

“…According to Academician of the National Academy of Pedagogical Sciences of Ukraine, Doctor of Pedagogical Sciences V. Zasenko, "special education in Ukraine is being reformed taking into account progressive world trends and paradigmatic changes in the direction from differentiation to integration" 30 .…”

Children with Special Educational Needs. Education during the Pandemic

“…This is especially important today, in a period of various emergencies, e.g. pandemics (Zasenko, Prokhorenko, 2018a).…”