On May 26-27, 2011 at the Foreign Languages Department an International Scientific Conference "DEVELOPMENT OF EDUCATIONAL SYSTEMS IN A GLOBAL DIMENSION: TRENDS AND PERSPECTIVES" took place.

The purpose of the conference was to share teaching experience and ideas as for the development of Ukrainian educational system under European integration and globalization processes.

Taking into consideration the range and importance of its objectives the conference organizers were: the Institute of Pedagogy of Ukrainian National Academy of Pedagogical Sciences, Laboratory of Comparative Pedagogy, Foreign Languages Department of Pavlo Tychyna Uman State Pedagogical University, Regional Centre of Foreign Languages Teaching.

The following questions were discussed:

  • Europe of education and comparative pedagogy in their mutual progress;
  • educational reforms and innovations;
  • European dimension of pedagogical education: new teachers' competences;
  • history and methodology of comparative studies in philology and pedagogy;
  • general trends of school education content development in the European Union countries;
  • strategic directions of foreign language education development in middle and high school;
  • innovative trends in the development of education;
  • pedagogical theory and practice: the global context;
  • social and educational problems: the global context.

The conference was attended by researchers, PhD students, leaders of educational institutions, teachers, students of the College of interdisciplinary humanities studies, all interested in the problems of educational systems development in a global dimension.

187 participants, including: 6 doctors of sciences, 53 candidates of sciences, 102 young scientists, 2 representatives of European Integration Center were registered at the conference. Participants were from different countries, such as: Ukraine, Russia, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Poland, USA.

68 reports and speeches were presented at the plenary session and workshops. The conference started with the greeting speech of mayor Yuri Bodrov and rector of Pavlo Tychyna Uman State Pedagogical University Natalya Pobirchenko.

During the conference "DEVELOPMENT OF EDUCATIONAL SYSTEMS IN A GLOBAL DIMENSION: TRENDS AND PROSPECTS” work the following recommendations were acquired:

  1. In building the national system of education the following aspects should be taken into consideration:
    • current needs and perspectives of the national economy;
    • global and regional innovation processes in educational field;
    • internal regularities of national educational system development;
    • national educational traditions;
    • values and norms of European democracy, a knowledge society.
  2. To provide to the changes in the national educational system proactive, holistic and continuous character.
  3. To develop national program of innovative reforms of the national education system based on optimal combination of functional and organizational directions of activities.
  4. To provide scientific support of innovative activity with considering of European requirements and criteria for the theoretical and empirical research on pedagogy carrying out;
  5. To enhance the level of publicity and transparence of educational policy by attracting a wide range of civic and professional organizations;
  6. To intensify work aimed at creating and organizing the activity of public research centers, associations in the educational field.
  7. To borrow in education mainly at the level of general conceptual approaches to innovation activity.
  8. To develop public and private partnership in education, particularly to improve material and technical basis of educational institutions.