On April 26-27 the International Scientific Conference "Interdisciplinarity as the Methodology of Humanities: Language, Education and Culture" took place at the Foreign Languages Department of USPU.

The conference aim was the exchange of teaching experience and ideas on the Ukrainian education system development under the European integration and globalization process conditions.

Considering the magnitude and significance of the conference objectives, its organizers were:

• Foreign Languages Department of Pavlo Tychyna Uman State Pedagogical University,
• Regional Centre for Teaching Foreign Languages; Education Institute of NAPS of Ukraine, the Laboratory of Comparative Education and the Laboratory of Teaching Foreign Languages, A. Makarenko Sumy State Pedagogical University, Mykola Gogol Nizhyn State University, the Ukrainian Forum of Educational Leaders, Kennan Institute in Ukraine

The following issues were discussed in the conference:

• Strategic directions of foreign language education development in a middle and high school;
• Europe of education and comparative education in their mutual progress;
• educational reforms and innovations;
• teaching staff: new teachers competencies;
• foreign languages in the globalization and modernization of the modern world context; historical and social issues of education and science development.

Conference languages: Ukrainian, Russian, Polish and English.

The conference was attended by:

• University of AARHUS in Copenhagen (Denmark);
• International Cooperation Institute of Pedagogical University in Warsaw (Poland);
• International Agency for Development TAG (Israel);
• Stanford University (USA);
• Yaroslavl State Medical Academy (Russia);
• International curriculum francophone center "Alliance Franсais";
• National Research Tomsk Polytechnic University (Russia);
• Russian New University (Russia);
• scholars, graduate students and applicants, heads of educational institutions, lecturers, students of the Interdisciplinary Humanities Studies College, everyone who is concerned with problems of education systems global development.

The Organizing Committee received 220 participants' applications, abstracts and articles.

150 participants, including 12 doctors, 73 candidates of science, young scientists - 130, members of the Kennan Institute in Ukraine - 4, representatives of the Peace Corps (USA) - 1 registered at the conference.

150 reports and speeches were presented during the plenary and breakout sessions.

Speech of Lyayf Mus, professor of AARHUS University (Denmark).


Round table. Statement by the Kennan Institute Director, Y.M. Pylynskyi.

Participants' reports at the International Conference were related to:

• European association of educational studies in European educational space activity;
• Ukrainian school education quality in sociology language;
• University as part of the national innovation system: the developed countries experience;
• competence approach in European pedagogical education: theory and practice; some problems of social and demographic situation in Ukraine;
• control of students' independent work in the process of foreign language learning;
• principles of language, speech, illustrative and informational material selection to the content of school textbooks in foreign languages;
• role of university in urban development: international experience and the situation in Ukraine; problems of entering private higher education institutions in Poland in the international educational community;
• new paradigm of higher education in developing countries;
• establishment and development of comparative education in Ukraine;
• professional teachers development in the American educational associations;
• methodology of the European higher education community: challenges for national universities;
• creation of regional educational centers in comparative pedagogics as a trend of comparative professional pedagogics development in Ukraine.

Plenary


The conference outcomes