Ukrainian Scientific Discourse: Dominants of Communicative Projections

Abstract

The tasks of Ukrainian studies as a science and teaching discipline are considered with the use of information and communication fields of modern humanities. Modern Ukrainian studies should respond to the present humanitarian and cultural challenges, multiplying the scientific arsenal of Ukrainian-centric knowledge that will keep increasing its dominance. For this purpose, in modern Ukrainian studies, further work is being done on the most appropriate possibilities for studying, selecting, and substantiating the ways of studying, and, therefore, for propagation of the learned. The challenges faced by modern Ukrainian studies come from several sources: globalization, liberalism, neoconservatism. It is emphasized that ideology, which contains a clear system-making factor, further builds the epochal progress both in scientific life and in state-building movements. In its content structuring, the concept of “ideology”, which manifests itself in scientific system-making, reflects, as much as possible, the tasks of Ukrainian studies in the 19th and 20th–21st centuries – the systematic and complex system (supersystematic) of knowledge about Ukraine and Ukrainians. It is confirmed that Ukrainian studies are a science (scientific system) of Ukrainian-centric knowledge which deals with the phenomena of Ukrainian cultural creation and state creation factum. It is noted that in defining the tasks of Ukrainian studies, one should not forget about that of “system paideia”. This is a process of Ukrainian-centric education and upbringing; hence, the filling of the school curriculum with Ukrainian-centric knowledge and teaching approaches. The specific possibility of Ukrainianological synthesis and systematization should be a special request of a modern Ukrainian school, where common (summarized) approaches to knowledge acquisition are promoted. Thanks to this amount of knowledge, the Ukrainian-study system will be structured as Ukrainian-centric communication. On the basis of such know-how, the state itself will act as a system of relations, which are carried out only in the coordinates of an open society and a constantly “public state”.