The publication provides a comprehensive analysis of the state and development of national education over the 30 years of Ukraine’s independence, identifies current problems in education, ascertains the causes of their emergence, offers scientifically reasoned ways to modernise domestic education in the context of globalisation, European integration, innovative development, and national self-identification. Designed for legislators, state officials, education institutions leaders, teaching and academic staff, the general public, all those who seek to increase the competitiveness of Ukrainian education in the context of civilisation changes.

Ukraine is in a situation of increased danger of emergencies in connection with a continuing international armed conflict on the territory of the country. This creates the need for specialized training of specialists in order to increase the psychological readiness and capacity of communities for effective action in emergencies. The aim is to establish the conceptual grounds for developing disasters community readiness by focused and informed social workers. Creation and approbation of the new high education learning course on the base of theoretical analysis is the proposed way. As the results of analysis are some schemas of dynamics of the communities coping processes during and after disasters and other extremal situations (fire, technological catastrophe, war captivity, historical trauma). It is grounded topics and educational principles of discipline for social rehabilitators professional prepare. The author singles out four approaches for understanding suffering community and collective trauma dynamics (enlightenment, psychoanalytic, socio-constructive and organizational psychological). It is proposed three scales for social psychological analysis of community: urgent, long-term and trans-generative time intervals. Because the content has potential for secondary trauma induction, it is necessary to improve some safe promotional didactic elements: reflexive validity, resourceness, and information ecology principles. Students can choice some additional traumatic situations in local or national communities for joint analysis in the auditorium, which gives empowerment and feelings of co-creation during learning process.

The research was devoted to determination of the status level of occupational prestige and the factors it influenced typical for Ukrainians on the background of the world finance-economic crises. Four cycles of complex representative across-country survey (n=2407, n=2394, n =2480 and n =1270) were conducted during 2008–2010. In addition, focus-group research with a variety of target audiences directed to discover occupational prestige factors was carried out. Two occupational typologies - one based on ISCO-88 and another based on the differentiation of the subjects of professional activity (man-man, man-technology, man-nature, man-symbol, man-artistic image) - were implemented for data analyses (n =1251 for adults and n =1250 adolescences). In consequence, the national standard of occupational prestige was created which was compared with the Standard International Occupational Prestige Scale. Five profiles determining their profession as prestigious were created after factor analyses. The most important factor is the idea about high earnings. Women more than men connected occupational prestige with comfortable work conditions, possibilities for rapid career, privileges, glory (fame), stability. In addition, the higher the respondent's education level the more important are such factors as opportunity for creative self-realisation and solving difficult tasks accessible only for some people. The coexistence of the same occupations in different lists of deficitprestige occupations is explained by both stereotypes of consciousness and stereotypes of economic system as remnants of the socialist way of life. Therefore, strategies which include such steps as fixing cycles, information during the detection of the stereotypes, the new cycle of information in collaboration with the system of vocational training is proposed.

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Study of the war media trauma during chronic traumatic stress is needed for prevention of mental health problems in risk groups (combatant families, refugees and poverty in different communities) to reduce