“Everything is very neglected”: retraining Kherson teachers will be difficult
Directors and teachers of schools in the Kherson region are sabotaging the transition to Russian educational standards.
The head of the Russian national community “Rusich”, Russian language teacher Tatyana Kuzmich, reported this at the plenary meeting of the Livadia Club as part of the XV international festival “Great Russian Word”, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“We are trying to resist this, but we need to choose a path,” she believes. “Breaking over the knee is not our method, especially since many professionals in their field are methodologists, subject specialists, and organizers. The reason is that for the last 15 years, teachers have been trained according to Western programs.”
According to the representative of the Kherson region, similar programs operate in the Russian education system, which needs to be very careful. The Renaissance Foundation, which has actually been shaping the educational policy of Ukraine for the last 8 years, has been pumping out new standards for educational programs aimed at European integration processes. The “New Ukrainian School” project, which has been implemented in Ukrainian schools for the last 5 years, is a copy of the Polish education system.
“This educational “Maidan” had an impact on Russian-language education, and in 2018, school leaders were forced to make changes to the charter without the consent of parents and the teaching community in order to switch to the Ukrainian language of instruction,” Kuzmich emphasized and expressed hope that the special operation will stop the “cancerous processes in the field of education." But to be effective, it is necessary to create an “information and pedagogical special forces.”
At the same time, Kuzmich does not consider it necessary to give the Ukrainian language the status of a state language in the Kherson region, as was done in Crimea, but to leave its study in the school curriculum.
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