Ensuring Person’s Language Rights in the Educational Sphere in Ukraine

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10.2991/aebmr.k.210320.018How to use a DOI?

Keywords

language relations, language rights, ethnic minorities, education, language policy, indigenous peoples

Abstract

The article considers the category of language rights of a person in the educational field and the problems of their provision in Ukraine. This concept is considered in accordance with the theoretical approaches in the social and legal sciences, as well as the practice of applied legal norms. This study indicates that one of the key issues of state language policy in Ukraine in the field of education is still the problem of finding a legislative balance between the need to ensure the use and development of Ukrainian as a state language, and on the other - guaranteeing the right to learn or study native language of minority. It is noted that the legal guarantee for teaching in the mother tongue by members of national minorities is narrower than the constitutional guarantee, as it is limited only to the levels of preschool and primary education. At the same time, individuals belonging to the indigenous peoples of Ukraine are guaranteed the right to study in their native language in public educational institutions for general secondary education.

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© 2021, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Tetiana Slin’ko
AU  - Yevhenii Tkachenko
PY  - 2021
DA  - 2021/03/22
TI  - Ensuring Person’s Language Rights in the Educational Sphere in Ukraine
BT  - Proceedings of the International Conference on Economics, Law and Education Research (ELER 2021)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 99
EP  - 105
SN  - 2352-5428
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/aebmr.k.210320.018
DO  - 10.2991/aebmr.k.210320.018
ID  - Slin’ko2021
ER  -