TRADITIONS AND INNOVATIONS IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE HIGHER SCHOOL IN THE TERRITORY OF UKRAINE: EUROPEAN DISCOURSE

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INTRODUCTION Eurointegration and globalization processes of modernity encourage revealing the importance of external factors (first of all, intercultural interactions) as well as internal logic of higher education development in a certain country, aimed at ensuring high educational standards and preservation of national-cultural identity. As a civilization crossroads between the “humanist West” and the “Byzantine East” 1 , Ukraine is situated geopolitically and mentally at the intersection of various cultures and civilizations, creatively interpreting impulses from the outside. In the reforming process of the higher educational system, preserving humanistic European values, creating an open cultural and intellectual space, harmonizing academic traditions and innovations, embodying real university autonomy, realizing academic freedoms, achieving high education standards are of exceptional relevance. In the study the ideas of the university’s mission and function developers were considered (M. Weber, M. Heidegger, V. Humboldt, J. Derrida, P. Morav, J. Newman, H. Ortega-i-Gasset, J. Pelikan, F. Schleiermacher, K. Jaspers). Among the fundamental works should be noted the 4-volume edition “History of Universities in Europe”. Significant contribution to the coverage of the historical experience of “intellectual tourism” of Ukrainians in Europe was made by V. Horskyi, S. Grachotti, S. Kurbatov, V. Litvinov, V. Mykytas, D. Nalyvaiko, V. Nychyk, H. Nudha, O. Pakhlovska, Yu. Stratii, M. Shalat. The activities of the Ostroh and Kyiv-Mohyla Academies were revealed in the writings of Y. Isaievych, T. Ketra, I. Krypiakevych, V. Mankivskyi, Y. Mytsyk, O. Pritsak, Z. Khyzhniak, M. Yaremenko. History of Higher Education in the XIX – beginning of the XX cen. – N. Demianenko, O. Drach, L. Zelenska, L. Levytska, V. Kachmar, S. Kessou, M. Krykun, H. Kosinova, S. Kulish, Y. Mokliak, S. Pakholkiv, S. Posokhov, H. Hausman, T. Udovitska, T. Maurer and others. However, contemporary historiography lacks research that presents