The role of the European educational area in ensuring the quality of higher education

The European educational space combines national features with the main task of ensuring the quality of higher education – modernization of methods for evaluating the training of an education seeker, and monitoring his achievements, where the main evaluator is the customer and the labor market. The role of the European educational space in ensuring the quality of higher education is clarified. The priority value of higher education is shown. Let's highlight the means that ensure the implementation of such a strategy. The main basis for ensuring the quality of higher education is academic integrity, compliance with the rules of the educational process, creating an atmosphere that is favorable for the education of all categories of students of the educational process, and providing equal opportunities for all students to obtain a quality education. The definition of academic integrity is given. The most typical models of professional training to ensure the quality of higher education in the countries of the European Union are shown. The factors that ensure the quality of higher education in the countries of the European Union and increase the chances of employment of specialists are singled out. The functions of the European Higher Education Area are listed

Problem space of modern society: philosophical-communicative and pedagogical interpretations. Part I

This collective monograph offers the description of philosophical bases of definition of communicative competence and pedagogical conditions for the formation of communication skills. The authors of individual chapters have chosen such point of view for the topic which they considered as the most important and specific for their field of study using the methods of logical and semantic analysis of concepts, the method of reflection, textual reconstruction and comparative analysis. The theoretical and applied problems of modern society are investigated in the context of philosophical, communicative and pedagogical interpretations

National Report on the State and Prospects of Education Development in Ukraine

The comprehensive analysis of the state and prospects of national education development over the 25 years of Ukraine’s Independence is made; the educational sphere actual problems are determined; the causes of their appearance are revealed; the scientifically grounded proposals concerning the ways of domestic education modernization in the context of globalization, European integration and national self-identification are proposed. The report will be useful to policy makers, state leaders, education institutions leaders, pedagogical and scientific and pedagogical personnel, wide community and everyone who cares for the competitiveness of Ukrainian education

Quality of University Education: Educological Discourse

The collective monograph analyzes the current problems of quality assurance in higher education, raises questions about the role and social function of modern universities in society. The educational foundations for the development of university education at the current stage have been highlighted, an analysis of the challenges the modern university community is facing has been carried out, and attention is focused on the digitalization of the educational space. The authors’ team focuseson updating the legal framework and its compliance with the European standards of quality assurance in higher education. Besides, they raise issues of the European requirements implementation at the Ukrainian universities, as well as discuss the quality education impact on the labour of quality assurance in higher education: the university values, academic and information culture, and academic integrity

Civil Society in the 'Visegrad Four': Data and Literature in the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia

The first of three publications on the '25 Years After -- Mapping Civil Society in the Visegrád Four' project contains an overview of existing data and literature in the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia. It looks at where and what kind of research on civil society has been and is being done, who is doing it and where the gaps are.To be consistent and comparable, the four country reports include the same core sections: relevant publications on civil society in the respective country; existing databases and other data sources; active centres of research, training, and policy studies. More than providing just a list, this report looks at how they can be evaluated in terms of scope, accurateness and depth. Finally, it considers the question of what the most crucial gaps in research and funding in the countries are.An academic volume is slated for the end of 2014. For other publications in English and German, see www.maecenata.eu

Comparative and international education – 2017: education transformations in the context of european integration and globalisation

Матеріали збірника присвячено проблемам, які обговорювалися на І Міжнародній науково-практичній конференції “Педагогічна компаративістика і міжнародна освіта – 2017” (Київ, 15-16 червня 2017 р.), охоплюючи методологічні орієнтири порівняльно-педагогічних студій, освітні трансформації, інновації та стратегії розвитку освіти в Україні, Європі та у світі у контексті інтернаціоналізації, мультикультуралізму, європейської інтеграції таглобалізації. Для розробників освітньої політики, науковців, управлінців, викладачів, докторантів, аспірантів, студентів.The materials of the collection are devoted to the problems that were discussed at the 1st International scientific and practical conference "Comparative pedagogy and international education - 2017" (Kyiv, June 15-16, 2017), covering the methodological benchmarks for comparative pedagogical studies, educational transformations, innovations and strategies for the development of education in Ukraine, Europe and the world in the context of internationalization, multiculturalism, European integration and globalization. Для розробників освітньої політики, науковців, управлінців, викладачів, докторантів, аспірантів, студентів

Postsocialist Shrinking Cities

This book provides a comparative analysis of shrinking cities in a broad range of postsocialist countries within the so-called Global East, a liminal space between North and South. While shrinking cities have received increased scholarly attention in the past decades, theoretical, and empirical research has remained predominantly centered on the Global North. This volume brings to the fore a range of new perspectives on urban shrinkage, identifying commonalities, differences, and policy experiences across a very diverse and vivid region with its various legacies and contemporary controversial developments. With chapters written by leading experts in the field, insider views assist in decolonizing urban theory. Specifically, the book includes chapters on shrinking cities in China, Russia, and postsocialist Europe, presenting comparative discussions within countries and crossnational cases on theoretical and policy implications. The book will be of interest to students and scholars researching urban studies, urban geography, urban planning, urban politics and policy, urban sociology, and urban development

Three social science disciplines in Central and Eastern Europe: handbook on economics, political science and sociology (1989-2001)

Content: Ulrike Becker, Max Kaase, Gabor Klaniczay, and Vera Sparschuh: Social Sciences in Central and Eastern Europe on the Verge of EU Enlargement (7-10); Andrei Plesu: Financing Difference. Fostering the Social Sciences in the Field of Tension Between Homogenization and Differentiation (12-16); Elemer Henkiss: Brilliant Ideas or Brilliant Errors? (17-24); Janos Matyas Kovacs: Business as (Un)usual (26-33); Mitko Dimitrov: Bulgaria (34-49); Frantisek Turnovec: Czech Republic (50-64); Tiia Püss: Estonia (65-82); Laszlo Csaba: Hungary (83-101); Raita Karnite: Latvia (102-120); Linas Cekanavicius: Lithuania (121-134); Tadeusz Kowalik: Poland (135-151); Paul Dragos Aligica: Romania (152-167); Julius Horvath: Slovakia (168-186); Joze Mencinger: Slovenia (187-194); Hans-Jürgen Wagener: Demand and Supply of Economic Knowledge in Transition Countries (195-203); Hans-Dieter Klingemann: Political Science in Central and Eastern Europe: National Development and International Integration (206-212); Georgi Karasimeonov: Bulgaria (213-225); Jan Holzer and Pavel Pseja: Czech Republic (226-245); Raivo Vetik: Estonia (246-257); Mate Szabo: Hungary (258-274); Andris Runcis: Latvia (275-285); Algis Krupavicius: Lithuania (286-305); Stanislaw Gebethner and Radoslaw Markowski: Poland (306-321); Daniel Barbu: Romania (322-342); Darina Malova and Silvia Mihalikova: Slovakia (343-357); Danica Fink-Hafner: Slovenia (358-374); Pal Tamas: Followers or Activists? Social Scientists in the Reality Shows of Transformation (376-385); Nikolai Genov: Bulgaria (386-404); Michal Illner: Czech Republic (405-424); Mikk Titma: Estonia (425-436); Denes Nemedi and Peter Robert: Hungary (437-451); Aivars Tabuns: Latvia (452-466); Anele Vosyliute: Lithuania (467-483); Janusz Mucha and Pawel Zalecki: Poland (484-501); Maria Larionescu: Romania (502-517); Zuzana Kusa, Bohumil Buzik, Ludovit Turcan and Robert Klobucky: Slovakia (518-535); Frane Adam and Matej Makarovic: Slovenia (536-547); Piotr Sztompka: The Condition of Sociology in East-Central Europe (548-556); Mihaly Sarkany: Cultural and Social Anthropology in Central and Eastern Europe (558-566); Thomas Kucera and Olga Kucerova: Population science in Central and Eastern Europe: Implications for Research and Practice (567-577); Marie-Claude Maurel: Central European Geography and the Post-Socialist Transformation. A Western Point of View (578-587); Grazyna Skapska: Law and Society in a Natural Laboratory: the Case of Poland in the Broader Context of East-Central Europe (588-603)