On February 3, 2025, the leading specialist of the Institute of History, Ethnology and Archaeology of the Carpathians Bohdan Paska took part in the second meeting of the expert commission on the civic and historical educational branch of the Ukrainian Institute for the Development of Education. The meeting was chaired by Professor of the Department of History of the Ancient World and the Middle Ages of the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Doctor of Historical Sciences. Vadym Anatoliyovych Rubel. The secretary was the methodologist of the Department of Educational Content of the Ukrainian Institute for the Development of Education, Vsevolod Sergiyenko.
During the meeting, 6 objects of grading were considered – textbooks from the educational courses “History of Ukraine”, “World History”, “Civic Education”, “History: Ukraine and the World”, intended for 8th grade students. The conclusions of the experts were marked by a thorough approach to the analysis of educational literature. The expert opinions noted such typical shortcomings of the proposed textbooks as problems with compliance with the norms of academic integrity, logical contradictions, factual errors, inconsistency with the achievements of modern Ukrainian historiography, linguistic and stylistic flaws, and problems with electronic supplements to the publications. As a result, it was decided to send all the objects of grading for revision.