A Word to the Reader

Abstract

Dear reader!

Global transformations of the third millennium determinate a human being as a centre of modern civilization whose successful personal development, the professional and citizenly becoming are ensured by education.

Under pivotal reforms of education in Ukraine towards its integration into the European and global educational spaces the mission to create an innovative person formation – with the innovating thinking, culture and ability to an innovating type of activity based on human-centrism – is the function of education.

The key role in the implementation of this task belongs to the National Academy of Educational Sciences of Ukraine. The mission of the Academy is to serve the Ukrainian society through theoretical and applied scientific research at the highest level in order to ensure the effective functioning and perspective development of education under civilizational changes, formation of new qualities of citizens as the wealth of the Ukrainian state.

The National Academy of Educational Sciences of Ukraine has confidently proved itself to be an internationally integrated centre generating and disseminating new knowledge in the fields of education, pedagogy and psychology, carrying out innovative activities to ensure a significant contribution to social development.

Today, in the context of the openness of Ukraine to the world, we attach great importance to a broad discussion of the accumulated expertise and ground-breaking outputs by the National Academy of Educational Sciences of Ukraine, dissemination of the obtained results among the Ukrainian educators, the European and world community.

“Education: Modern Discourses” will become one more resource for such a dialogue. On the pages of the annals the topical issues of education in all its aspects (reforms, technologies, strategies, etc.) and at various levels (early childhood, preschool, school, vocational, higher, postgraduate, adult education) will be considered and debated.

We expect that “Education: Modern Discourses” journal will become an effective platform for discussions of scholars and practitioners on the vital issues of education and research at the national and international levels.

Editor-in-Chief
President National Academy
of Educational Sciences of Ukraine                        Vasyl Kremen