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.