Problems of legal guarantee of educational needs of national minorities

Problemas de la garantía legal de las necesidades educativas de las minorías nacionales

Keywords: educational needs, national minorities, educational institutions, inclusive legislation, ethnopolitics

Abstract

The aim of this study was to analyze the current international agreements, the Ukrainian legislation on ensuring the educational needs of its national minorities, the observance of their educational rights and their compliance with international standards. The study is conducted on the example of the educational needs of Gypsies, Poles and Hungarians. The materials and methods used made it possible to carry out analytical and research work, identify shortcomings and offer clear proposals for the legal regulation of the educational provision of national minorities. Also, a questionnaire survey was conducted among representatives of national minorities studying in educational institutions in Ukraine. The system of general philosophical and scientific methods was chosen as a methodological basis. It is concluded that, in general, Ukrainian legislation complies with international and European standards of minority education, because it contains rules and guarantees to ensure full understanding of the native language of the national minority and, in the broadest sense, the legislator managed to find a balance between national, moral and cultural interests of these groups of Ukrainian citizens.

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Author Biographies

Viktoriia Chornopyska, Lviv Polytechnic National University, Lviv. Ukraine.

Doctor of legal sciences, Associate Professor of the Department of Civil Law and Process of the Educational and Scientific Institute of Law, Psychology and Innovative Education of the Lviv Polytechnic National University 79005, 1/3 Kniazia Romana St., Building 19, Lviv. Ukraine.

Liudmyla Mikhnevych, Kyiv National Economic University named after Vadym Hetman, Kyiv, Ukraine.

Head of the Department of Constitutional and Criminal Law, doctor of legal sciences, Kyiv National Economic University named after Vadym Hetman, 03057, 54/1 Peremohy Ave., Kyiv, Ukraine. 

Ivan Peresh, Uzhhorod National University, Ukraine.

PhD, Associate Professor of the Department of Theory and History of State and Law Uzhhorod National University Head of department (Theory and History of State and Law). Ukraine.

Mariana Hartman, Uzhhorod National University, Ukraine.

Candidate of law sciences, docent, Theory and History of State and Law, Theory and History of State and Law Uzhhorod National University. Ukraine.

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Published
2023-03-04
How to Cite
Kovnyi , Y., Chornopyska, V., Mikhnevych, L., Peresh, I., & Hartman, M. (2023). Problems of legal guarantee of educational needs of national minorities: Problemas de la garantía legal de las necesidades educativas de las minorías nacionales. Political Questions, 41(76), 699-719. https://doi.org/10.46398/cuestpol.4176.41

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