PECULIARITIES OF HUMANITARIAN DISCIPLINES HIGH-SCHOOL TEACHING STAFF ADAPTATION TO THE WORK IN THE CONDITIONS OF FORCED SOCIAL DISTANCING PROVOKED BY COVID-19 IN UKRAINIAN UNIVERSITIES

Abstract

The study provides a multifaceted study of the difficulties which humanitarian disciplines high-school teaching staff faced and overcome in Ukrainian Universities to ensure the educational process in a wide distance format through the pandemia COVID-19. The results of the study allowed to determine:1 Barriers to the accelerated introduction of distance learning in higher education in conditions of forced social distancing (psychological, socio-economic, pedagogical methods and approaches barrier (methodological), ICT and communicative, cultural and administrative barriers);2 Features of adaptation of scientific and pedagogical employees of higher education institutions that teach foreign languages, as well as representatives of the administrative level and employees of distance education departments, etc. (these peculiarities are: forced introduction of the widerange of distant learning tools and platforms into the educational process, high-school teachers' speed mastery of different means of distant learning tools and resources, accommodation to provide classes on different distant learning video-tools etc.);3 Positive strategies and practices of Ukrainian higher education institutions to optimize the management of rapid implementation of distance learning in the context of forced social distancing through the COVID-19 pandemia in administrative and individual contexts (creating of staff focus groups which manage the organization of distant learning, creation of staff group which help to organize the explanation procedure on effective management of educational process in different disciplines ect.);4 Optimal (qualitative and effective) mechanisms for overcoming barriers and difficulties of accelerated introduction of distance learning in higher education institutions in different blocks (psychological, socio-economic, pedagogical methods and approaches barrier (methodological), ICT and communicative, cultural and administrative barriers).On the bases of the investigation results the group of authors proposed a set of guidelines and a series of trainings on optimizing the management of implementation of distance learning in the context of forced social distancing through the COVID-19 pandemic at different levels: individual, administrative and collective. It is planned to develop a roadmap for optimizing the management of distance and blended learning in higher education institutions in different blocks and discuss the problem of research on a broader scientific scale in the context of further action on higher education institutions in forced social distance through the COVID-19 pandemic.