THE POSSIBILITIES OF CONSTRUCTIVE APPLYING CANADIAN EXPERIENCE IN UKRAINIAN STUDIES FOR UKRAINE’S EDUCATIONAL PRACTICE

Abstract

In this article the authors determine the methodological approaches (axiological, culturological and multicultural) used to generalize the ideas and cultural and educational heritage of Ukrainian Canadian educationalists in the development of Ukrainian studies in Canada. Some didactics principles are highlighted being the basis of the creative possibilities of using progressive experience and ideas of Canadian specialists in Ukrainian studies (the end of XX – the beginning of XXI century) in present-day Ukraine's educational practices.
Efforts and attempts of Ukrainian-Canadian educationalists resulted in high quality Ukrainian-language learning programs and methodology through the cooperation of talented scientific and practical educational staff applying new innovative technologies; due to the Ukrainian Diaspora activities and federal government support it is in Canada where Ukrainian-language studies are realized in the most effective way.

Canadian multiculturalism can be considered a basic feature of Canadian society, Canadian essence, the basis of Canadian identity, since it unifies its communities into one unit. The authors consider schooling to be an important factor of Ukrainian Diaspora self-identification and activities in Canada that promotes forming and maintaining national identity of new generations of Ukrainians abroad as an integral part of active Ukrainians worldwide and emphasize the prospective of the positive experience of multicultural education in Canada and their implementation into multicultural nations' education systems.
The authors present some scientific and methodological recommendations dedicated to the students specializing in pedagogy and philology and to the teachers of Ukrainian studies, and based on the described approaches and principles. The prognostic argumentation for creative applying constructive achievements of Canadian specialists in Ukrainian studies is substantiated at different levels of Ukraine’s scientific and educational environment – in schools, at organizational and pedagogical and legislative levels.

Key words: education in Ukrainian studies; axiological, culturological and multicultural approaches; didactics principles; personology; educational and scientific environment; extrapolation.