Maksym Yakovlyev

GRANTEE

Documenting Ukraine Grants

Experience of War among Ukrainian Students

With our team, I would like to produce a collective analytical material, documenting the needs of Ukrainian students from universities, that were in different ways affected by war. All of us are actively involved in teaching at our university, and via our colleagues from other universities we are constantly informed about their situation. We have an ongoing project of our initiative to study the experience of students, whose university had to relocate due to the Russian military invasion. We also have universities that were physically damaged by Russian bombs and rockets, some higher education institutions were (and some still are) under the Russian occupation (some of them – e.g. Kherson – could be evacuated into the West of Ukraine and hosted by Vasyl Stefanyk University there. We also have students from our university, Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, that now are under occupation and who cannot leave the occupied areas. In our project we would like to gather and document their experience and their current needs and their experience.

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    University professors teaching classes from trenches, children doing homework by candlelight, teachers giving lectures after being evacuated from their hometowns – this is the new “normal” of Ukrainian education. According to the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine, as of late October 2022 2,677 schools and universities have been damaged by the war and 331 have been destroyed. More than half a million students and over 25,000 teachers fled abroad as refugees.  But while the education process continues online and in hybrid forms, there is an acute need to understand and assess the experiences and needs of students and faculty. Documenting Ukraine supports several initiatives that collect testimonies and record such experiences.