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Overview & Synopsis

This booklet presents two papers on educational quality and reform. "Pedagogical Practice and the Philosophy of Education: The Experience of Ukrainian In-Service Teacher Education," explains that most Ukrainian inservice teacher education is provided through regional institutes. It focuses on the Poltava Ostrogradsky Teachers' Recertification Institute, discussing the kinds of teachers who come to the institute for training (anti-theoretical and anti-innovative), looking at the theory-practice relationship, and examining philosophy of education courses in Ukrainian inservice training. The second paper, "Knowledge Management: Enriching of Intellectual Capital and Transition to Knowledge Society," explains that the shift from an industrial to a knowledge society changes the nature of the relationship between society, knowledge, and technology. To be successful in the modern world, it is necessary to be capable of producing metaproduct and meta-technologies. The Ukraine must answer the meta-challenge of how to transfer knowledge to effectually utilize intellectual capital. Ten appendixes discuss: integrative education and polymorphism of knowledge; list of recent publications by the author; Poltava Ostrogradsky Regional In-service Teachers Training Institute; Ostrogradsky (famous educator and mathematician, 1801-61); Inset-Poltava takes part in NASA education program, Moonlink; the development of economic school education in the Poltava region; and postmethods. (Contains about 25 endnotes.) (SM)