The Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine has excluded Russian and Belarusian authors from the school curriculum for secondary education, according to the press release of this institution, EFE and Agerpres report.
According to the updated program, the subject of foreign literature will henceforth be studied only with works in the Russian language, which belong to authors who were born in Ukraine or had special relations with this country.
“The revision and updating of the content of the general curriculum of secondary education is a reaction to the challenges arising in connection with the large-scale armed aggression of the Russian Federation against Ukraine,” the Ukrainian agency explains.
Gogol and Bulgakov remain without Pushkin
According to the Ukrainian agency Unian, after this decision, Ukrainian schoolchildren will no longer study the Russian national poet Alexander Pushkin, but Mykola Gogol and Mykhailo Bulgakov, who were born in Ukraine, although they are Russian writers, will remain in the school curriculum.
Lessons hitherto devoted to Russian authors should be devoted to European writers, poets and dramatists, including Jean de Lafontaine, Robert Burns or Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
The exclusion of Russian authors is not the only change made to the Ukrainian school curriculum, which was revised by the Ministry of Education in cooperation with representatives of universities, teachers, deputies, as well as some public organizations.
Students will study modern history in more detail
Thus, in the “History” discipline, “updated topics will provide a vision of the Soviet Union as an imperial-type state,” says the press release of the Ukrainian department, adding that students will have to study recent history in more detail.
In connection with the armed conflict that first started in Donbas in 2014, the history lessons will highlight “the genocidal actions of political leaders (Russian – not) and the Russian army against Ukrainians, national resistance to Russian aggression and international support for Ukraine.” this is shown in the same statement.
In addition, the discipline “Defense of Ukraine” will be strengthened with a “military-patriotic” component, information about the current war and its “heroes”, and the concept of protection during the conflict will be taught in the discipline “Basics of Health”. .
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