Ukrainian education during war: a scoping review

Abstract

On February 24, 2022, the Russian Federation launched an open-ended military invasion of Ukraine. Military actions have a catastrophically negative impact on the education sector: deaths, injuries, and psychological trauma to educators, schoolchildren, and students, damage to educational facilities. Indirect factors, such as diminished access to education and the subsequent exodus of qualified professionals from the country, are other contributors. These indirect factors are exacerbated by increasing violence directed toward pro-Ukrainian educators; reduction or complete cessation of education; and infrastructure degradation in the occupied territories. The purpose of this scoping review is to describe the scope of barriers and to sketch the scale and nature of challenges for the educational sector during war. We aim to record the most important decisions and targeted interventions to maintain education. For monitoring, we use published normative documents, secondary data, information messages from foreign and Ukrainian media, as well as representatives of Ukrainian state and local authorities.

Learning English Under the Sounds of Air Raid Sirens: Analysing Undergraduate EFL Students’ Sustainable Learing Practices

“…That's why my Excerpt (2) above epitomises negativity, stress, and anxiety associated with the war that the participants experience. This finding lends support to the literature, which posits that an additional amount of attention should be paid to the current student body in Ukraine that experiences psychological problems, in particular, moderate depression (Chaikovska et al, 2023;Lavrysh et al, 2023), frustration and trauma (Nenko et al, 2023;Suchikova et al, 2023), and inability to concentrate (Lokshyna et al, 2023;Lopatina et al, 2023). In case of the participants in our study, we can argue that they deal with their depression and war-induced trauma by means of concentrating on their everyday routines, inclusive of learning English the way it is taught at their regular EFL course.…”

“…There are several state-of-the-art studies that address the issue of teaching and learning processes at Ukrainian HEIs during the current Russo-Ukrainian war (Anishchenko et al, 2023;Banyoi et al, 2023;Bohomaz et al, 2022;Chaikovska et al, 2023;Kostikova et al, 2023;Kostikova & Miasoiedova, 2022;Kvyetnyy et al, 2023;Lavrysh et al, 2022;Lokshyna et al, 2023;Lopatina et al, 2023;Nenko et al, 2023;Suchikova et al, 2023;Spivakovsky et al, 2023;Tverdokhliebova & Yevtushenko, 2023;Voloshyna, 2023). Arguably, the studies share a common contention that the educational process at Ukrainian HEIs is a challenge to the students and teachers, "who have to learn to work in new realities -in the conditions of war" (Banyoi et al, 2023, p. 75).…”