Multilingual Education Experiments in Post-Soviet Space: The Case of Multilingual Education in Ukraine

EasyChair Preprint 524

Abstract

The paper aims at providing information on today language policies in Ukraine. Until 2018 the school system in Ukraine has continued a tradition of running schools with minorities’ languages as main languages of instruction. 

Since 2010, the Romanian non-governmental organization (NGO) The Peace Action, Training and Research Institute of Romania (PATRIR) has engaged in an initiative to assess the context and later to pilot a multilingual education (MLE) project in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea first and, from 2014, in three Ukrainian regions: Odessa, Chernivtsi and Transcarpathia. Project was transferred to the Ministry, which is developing it further as a state-wide experiment “Building Multilingualism of Children and Students: Progressive European Ideas in the Ukrainian Context”.

The paper aims at analysing existing conditions, challenges, and needs for the effective implementation of MLE in Ukraine.

Keyphrases: language policy, multilingual education, teacher professional development

@booklet{EasyChair:524,
  author    = {Ligita Grigule},
  title     = {Multilingual Education Experiments in Post-Soviet Space: The Case of Multilingual Education in Ukraine},
  howpublished = {EasyChair Preprint 524},
  year      = {EasyChair, 2018}}