STATE OF NEEDS IN THE FIELD OF EDUCATION OF NATIONAL MINORITIES IN THE FIELD OF EDUCATION IN UKRAINE

Abstract

The authors will analyse the system of ensuring the educational needs of national minorities in the field of education in Ukraine by defining the education system, which includes legal policy, institutional and organizational guarantees, identifying problematic aspects in the field of Ukrainian education and determining the possibilities of overcoming them, analysing the state of the educational needs of national minorities under the time of pandemic threats. It is indicated that global transformations have intensified the growth trends of the number of representatives of national minorities due to global demographic processes, in particular migration and refugees. It is proved that the elements of the system of ensuring the educational needs of national minorities in the field of education in Ukraine are international, European, regional and national legal acts, the functioning of public authorities, the complex structure of educational institutions at all levels, and additional organizational and economic guarantees of ensuring educational rights. International, regional and national legal norms are analysed. The positive aspects and shortcomings of the legal regulation of the educational sphere of national minorities are indicated. Several improvements to the current ethnopolitics of Ukraine are proposed in the context of the implementation of international and European standards and the positive practice of democratic states, in particular Romania. The results of providing an opportunity to determine a sufficient level of satisfaction with the provision of educational services among representatives of European national minorities. The methodological basis of the research is a system of philosophical, general scientific and unique scientific methods. The sociological survey conducted according to the author's questionnaires represents the actual state of education of national minorities in Ukraine, Hungarian, Slovak and Polish national minorities are taken into account. The authors prove that the pandemic crisis has a particularly negative effect on the education of national minorities.