ACADEMIC MOBILITY OF UKRAINIAN STUDENTS IN THE HISTORICAL RETROSPECTIVE: BEGINNINGS, DIRECTIONS, MOTIVES

• Main Authors: Sushyk Oleksandr, Sushyk Iryna
• Format: Article
• Language: Polish
• Published: Publishing House "EDELWEISS" Ltd 2019-12-01
• Series: Освітологія
• Subjects: academic mobility; mobile students; university; global educational space.
• Online Access: http://osvitologia.kubg.edu.ua/images/2019/8/suchyk.pdf

The article reveals the phenomenon of academic mobility of students, shows its genesis, trends and flows of mobile youth during historical periods. The attention was paid to the motivational component of the process of youth integration into the global educational space. The main periods of the academic mobility of students from the medieval origins to the present are highlighted. The first Western European universities are shown by the international intellectual centers of Europe XIV-XVII, where the leading youth of those times went. It is noted that the wandering lifestyle of medieval students was a way of integrating into the world of educational space. The attention is paid to the emergence of Ukrainian youth in European universities. The data on the number of Ukrainian students, their adaptation to the new cultural and educational society is given. Names of Ukrainians, graduates of European universities that became known to the world are mentioned. The need for mobility, as moved to find a better option and learning outside of their own intellectual environment, has been traced in different historical periods. Changes in the global picture of the movement of mobile students from the late 90’s of the XX century. The attention is focused on the modern problem of immigration of progressive Ukrainian youth, the reasons for the migration of students, the main centers of their accumulation are named. The main obstacles to promoting academic mobility of students to the European and world educational communities are considered. The emergence of virtual universities as an alternative to traditional appears, which become the basis of virtual academic mobility of the present