Modern Studentship Learning Practices Situation as a Socio-cultural Barriers in Higher School Modernization in Ukraine

Abstract

The authors analyzed the factors that hindering the process of modernization of higher education in Ukraine. Based on the understanding of the modernization of the national education system as the improving in accordance  with modern international and European standards, the authors presented the basic phenomena of modernization of the education sector, emphasized  that the introduction of some innovation in this area has not only positive but also negative effects. Among the barriers to the modernization of higher education  authors focuses on such as the unavailability of modern students for intensive and effective learning activities. Based on the data of national research conducted by the Department of Sociology of V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National University during the 2000-2012  the authors analyzed the teaching practices of students in Ukraine. In particular the characteristics of these teaching practices before and after the implementation in the domestic universities of credit-modular system,  entering the universities on the results of external evaluation, motivation, learning activities, and etc. This analysis confirmed the author's hypothesis that one of the main barriers of the modernization of higher education is an unmotivated youth to obtain higher education, which is determined by both subjective and objective factors.