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Nation Building, Democratization and Globalization as Competing Priorities in Ukraine's Education System*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Jan Germen Janmaat
Jan Germen Janmaat*
Affiliation:
Department of Lifelong and Comparative Education, Institute of Education, University of London, 20 Bedford Way, London WC1H 0AL, UK. Email: [email protected]
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One of the greatest challenges currently facing the new states in Central and Eastern Europe is educational reform. After obtaining independence in the early 1990s, these states were confronted with the immense task of transforming an outdated centralized education system, which was aimed at delivering a loyal communist workforce, into a modern system that would be much more responsive to consumer demands and would recognize and further individual talent. The immensity of the undertaking lies in the fact that three discourses make simultaneous demands on the education system: nation building, democratization and globalization.

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Nationalities Papers , Volume 36 , Issue 1 , March 2008 , pp. 1 - 23
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Copyright © 2008 Association for the Study of Nationalities 

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