Wartime Ukrainian Education: A Scoping Review

Abstract

On February 24, 2022, the Russian Federation launched an indefinite military invasion of Ukraine. The military actions have a catastrophically negative impact on the education sector: deaths, injuries, and psychological trauma to educators, schoolchildren, and students, damage to educational facilities. Indirect factors, such as decreased access to education and the resulting exodus of qualified professionals from the country, also contribute. These indirect factors are exacerbated by increased violence directed at pro-Ukrainian educators; reduction or complete cessation of education; and degradation of infrastructure in the occupied territories. The purpose of this scoping review is to describe the scope of the barriers and outline the scale and nature of the challenges for the education sector during the war. Our goal is to record the most important decisions and targeted interventions to maintain education. For monitoring, we use published regulatory documents, secondary data, information messages from foreign and Ukrainian media, as well as representatives of the Ukrainian state and local authorities.