INTEGRATING THE HISTORY OF UKRAINE AND WORLD HISTORY (BASED ON COURSES IN MEDIEVAL AND MODERN HISTORY OF ASIAN AND AFRICAN COUNTRIES): CHALLENGES AND PROSPECTS

Abstract

The purpose of the article is to identify the prospects for integrating courses in the history of Ukraine and world history at schools and higher education institutions, using the example of Medieval and Modern History of Asian and African countries.

Methodology. A range of scholarly methods was applied in the research, primarily historical and comparative approaches. The classification of the material made it possible to identify general patterns and cause-and-effect relationships.

Scientific novelty. For the first time, an attempt is made to analyse the potential challenges of integrating courses in the history of Ukraine and world history, using the examples of Medieval and Modern History of Asian and African countries in both schools and higher education institutions.

Conclusions. Full integration of the history of Ukraine with the history of Asian and African countries in the Middle Ages and the Modern era is more feasible at the school level and less so at higher educational institutions; however, it entails a number of challenges. Chief among them is the risk that students may lose an understanding of the diversity of historical processes, while the lack of direct historical parallels or similarities between events may lead to artificially constructed historical analogies.