The project is focused on a fundamental study of the processes of transformation of higher education in Ukraine under the influence of COVID-19 and full-scale military confrontation (on the example of distance learning practices). The theoretical and methodological basis of the research is a combination of poststructuralism, critical sociology and critical pedagogy, which involves the use of concepts of individualization / atomization of society, alienation, reification of social relations, commodification, fetishization of the educational process, etc. and an approach to the problems of social inequality (class, gender, regional, information etc). The project plans a complex empirical study (office stage, qualitative stage (interviews with teachers and FGI with students) and quantitative survey). As a result of summarizing the results of the research of other scientists and the author's research, a theoretical scheme will be proposed that will allow adapting general sociological theories to the Ukrainian context and new realities.

In order to reveal the specified problems from the specified theoretical angles, it is planned to conduct a complex empirical sociological research with the combined use of quantitative and qualitative methods.

1. At the first stage, it is planned to implement the desk research (work with open sources, secondary analysis of the results of other studies, etc.), which will allow to define the main projections of the situation in a theoretical dimension and formulating working hypotheses.
2. The second stage is planned to be conducted using qualitative research methods – in-depth and expert interviews with professors from higher education institutions of Ukraine and focus groups with students. This will allow us to outline and characterize the actual connection between distance learning practices and the above-mentioned social processes. In addition, the qualitative stage of the research will allow to develop tools for the next, quantitative stage as accurately and correctly as possible.
3. The third stage is quantitative, in which it is planned to conduct an online survey of students to determine the structural connections between distance learning practices and the abovementioned social processes and to check the formulated hypotheses with the help of statistical measurements (correlation, factor, cluster analysis, and others).

Cambridge – NRFU 2022. Individual grants for research (development) for Ukrainian researchers (with the support of University of Cambridge, UK). Project timeframe: November 2023 – November 2024.

Contact person

Dmytro Boiko, Head of Political Sociology Department of the School of Sociology V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University

d.m.boiko@karazin.ua

ORCID: 0000-0003-3425-8555.

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