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Moreover, it can be implemented through spiritual and moral deeds, ethics of human behavior, aspiration to beauty, overcoming "emotional still" aimed at creating an aesthetic world picture.
Conclusions
Culture and arts are the catalysts for appearance of excellent humans who have good souls, thoughts and deeds, who feel an urgent necessity to live in accordance with their conscience, to give people joy and happiness. The purity and light of these people are comparable with those perfect images, which are brightly represented in arts and nature. It comes to mind the follow-ing literary abstract, which is an excellent illustration to the mentioned above: "I saw a lily which was in dark swamp water. Everything around was rotted. However, the lily stayed pure like angel"s clothing. Then some waves appeared in the dark pond. They waggled the flower but any sport appeared on its surface." So people should become like those flowers. We have to remember that "we aren"t so civilized, conscious, kind and fair as we suppose. Actually, we are in the very beginning of our long walk to excellence. Our feeling of greatness and power is based just on the advances of the scientific and technological progress. But it isn"t helpful indeed for true human improvement" [Sommer, 2014: 19].
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Future Human Image. Volume 7, 2017 127
Divided Universities: The Postcolonial Experience of
Contemporary Ukrainian Higher Education
Denys Svyrydenko - Doctor of Philosophy, Professor
National Pedagogical Dragomanov University
(Kyiv, Ukraine)
E-mail: denis_sviridenko@ukr.net
The paper considers the problem of Ukrainian divided universities, which appear at the result of Revolution of Dignity, annexation of Crimea by Russia as well as formation of quasi-republics of the East of Ukraine. Most of educational institutions form these territories were evacuated (students and teaching stuff), but "twin universities" appeared using campus and facilities of migrated ones. Author demonstrates the heuristic potential of using the interdisciplinary approaches for understanding the essence of this situation applying metaphors like "university cloning", "university mitosis" and so on. This approach is strengthened by the ethical judgment through the basic axiological values of modern "idea of university" (freedom of thinking, academic freedom, institutional autonomy, will of knowledge and truth etc.) collected at Magna Charta Universitatum.
From these positions, migrated universities comprehend as an active bearer and translator of "idea of university". The "twin universities" have a lot of formal arguments to be comprehended as authentic ones, but author stresses on the fact that these institutions don"t fit the universities axiological criteria: these universities rejected ones" own tradition; teachers are ready to work in censored conditions and manipulate the knowledge; teachers and students risk to became subjects of violence; the autonomy and academic freedom are absent. Author also appeals the historical facts on the example of Cambridge University origination that let make the optimistic conclusion concerning the perspectives of migrated universities.
Key Words: divided university, idea of university, Ukrainian higher education, postcolonialism, quasi-republics, Revolution of Dignity, university cloning, university mitosis, Magna Charta Universitatum
Introduction
There is a well-known fact, that Ukraine as a national state passes the complex processes of modernization trying to overcome one"s post-totalitarian "heritage". These processes started at the beginning of the 1990s as a result of USSR break-up. Political and cultural transformations at Ukraine have two opposite poles (the European-oriented and Russia-oriented ones). During more than twenty-five years, Ukraine tries to build independent, democratic national state and stop being the "little brother" for Russia. The intensiveness of these processes differs from the political courses of the Ukrainian presidents.