UKRAINIAN HISTORIOGRAPHY ON PRE-SCHOOL, SECONDARY AND HIGHER PRIVATE EDUCATION OF UKRAINE: A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS

The study provides a systematic analysis of the historiography of private education in Ukraine. A comparison of the research level of three levels of Ukrainian private education, namely: preschool, secondary and higher is made. A systematic analysis of Ukrainian scientists' scientific works was conducted in order to highlight the specifics, common and distinctive features of private education in Ukraine. It is shown that scientific interest in the private sector of education appeared simultaneously with its formation. The analysis of scientific works devoted to preschool private education demonstrates that they treat private institutions of the first level of education not as a separate phenomenon, but mainly as a component of the state preschool system. As for scientific studies on private secondary education institutions, their analysis indicates a multifaceted consideration of them by researchers: starting from the educational process itself and borrowing foreign practices to the specifics of financing and functioning in modern conditions. As for the system of private higher education, specific examples demonstrate that researchers paid attention to the conceptual principles of the organization of education in private educational institutions, the features of their management systems, and the nature of the cognitive-educational and economic aspects of their functioning. A well-grounded approach to the study of private higher education as a social institution and a complex socio-cultural phenomenon made it possible not only to better understand the features of formation and development in the post-Soviet period but also to make predictions about the prospects for the development of private universities in Ukraine in the future. Based on the above facts, it was concluded that domestic researchers pay uneven attention to the formation of a network of private educational institutions of different levels today. The largest number of works in the field is devoted to the sector of private higher education in independent Ukraine, both in historical development and through the prism of pedagogy, philosophy, and other fields of science. Instead, there is a lack of scientific generalizations and comprehensive works on the first and second levels of privately owned institutions.