Ukrainian educational (school and vocational) terminography: А retrospective and perspective

Abstract

This article focuses on the achievements and prospects of the Ukrainian educational terminography, in particular school and vocational branches and on their criticism. The 1920s and 1930s, 1990s, and early 21st century as most productive period for educational terminography development, and school terminography gained more scope and significant achievements, in comparison to professional and technical terminography. The author assumes that the recognition of the Ukrainian educational terminography could become a powerful tool of the Ukrainian patriotic education and bring the generalized understanding of the methodology of high-quality terminological dictionary compiling in accordance with the current level of education and science and user needs. Its recognition will benefit the developing a univ ersal model of educational terminology dictionary and creating a bibliographic index of educational terminographic sources. The educational terminographic criticism prospects provide the following: 1) its recognition as an individual field of the Ukrainian terminographic criticism; 2) stimulating the development of the school, vocational, and university terminographic criticism; 3) developing a unified algorithm for analyzing an educational terminological dictionary; 4) creating a periodical to collect critical publications on educational dictionaries; 5) ordering the bibliographic indexing of reviews on the reference sources analyzed. Keywords: educational terminography, educational terminographic criticism, terminological dictionary, review