CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2024
| Author | Németh, Ádám Géza |
|---|---|
| Title | Human Rights Standards Behind Front Lines: Hungarian Education in Ukraine |
| Summary | In Ukraine, several restrictive legislative acts have been adopted in the period starting with 2017, when, in the framework of strengthening the Ukrainian language’s position, the previous permissive minority policy was replaced by a more restrictive policy towards national minorities. The laws passed by the Ukrainian legislature caused serious political debates internally, as well as on an international level. In my thesis, in addition to examining the internal legal rules and international standards, I have attempted to demonstrate that, although there is an apparent contradiction between the opinions of the two sides, namely the Ukrainian government and the local Hungarian minority, there are in fact a common goal, namely the significant improvement in minority students' knowledge of the official language. My main conclusion is that it is possible to reform the minority education in Ukraine in such a way that the system established (i) provides high quality Ukrainian language teaching in minority schools and (ii) maintains the dominance of the minority language in primary and secondary education for minorities, which helps the achievement of the common goal. In my view, the above common goals would be most effectively achieved through a methodology that teaches Ukrainian as a foreign language. In previous analyses it has been shown that the Ukrainian reform is based on the subtractive approach, in my thesis I argue that the use of the so-called additive approach would advance language teaching for minorities. |
| Supervisor | Zsolt, Körtvélyesi |
| Department | Legal Studies LLM |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2024/nemeth_adam.pdf |
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