Pedagogical innovations in Ukrainian educational institutions: social challenges and realities of war

Abstract

The article presents the issue and features of the innovative approach to the organization of the educational process in Ukrainian educational institutions in martial law. The following research methods were used: the analytical method, surveys, and qualitative and quantitative analysis of empirical data. The author’s understanding of innovative approaches, technology tools of teaching, innovative pedagogical activity, innovative culture, and teachers’ competence is characterized. Considerable attention is paid to the technologies of personality-oriented training and pedagogy of partnership. The experience of organizing distance learning for Ukrainian students in wartime, including the creation of special educational projects: online lessons, video lessons on YouTube and national television; International Ukrainian School (for temporarily displaced persons), All-Ukrainian Online School with the support of the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine. Emphasis is placed on the innovative potential of digital education to improve teaching/learning methods in various types of educational institutions, as well teachers’ different skills and ability to respond to societal challenges of technology, socio-economic and military-political situation in the country. The results of an empirical study covering 146 teachers and lecturers of educational institutions in Ukraine are presented. The effectiveness of digital education has been proved, as well as the necessity to improve organizational and methodological tools, forms of work of teachers and students to develop critical thinking, skills of dialogic learning, project work in a team, inquiry-based learning, etc. The necessity to use the latest digital tools to realize the creative potential of teachers in their professional activities is emphasized.