Yulia Ostropalchenko

After several years as a teacher of literature, the educationalist researched at Boris Grinchenko University Kiev until 2022 for her PhD on 'Critical Thinking in Media Education'. In spring 2022, she came to the GEI for a short-term fellowship and stayed for research on the intermediality of German textbook representations of Ukraine. In her research, she inquires about which media texts and images are cited in relation to the contemporary history and present of Ukraine and what other references to media they make. The focus is on whether intermediality goes hand in hand with the didactic principles of multiperspectivity and controversiality, and to what extent they represent and convey social plurality through media references. Yulia Ostropalchenko is particularly interested in whether German textbooks encourage a critical approach to media with the help of tasks and methodological instructions and draws on theoretical approaches from sociology, gender studies and cultural studies.

She contributes her research based knowledge of media didactics to materials on the teaching and learning resources platform Zwischentöne.

Project

• Europe's Forgotten Centre: Textbook Analyses on Ukraine and its Neighbours
• Stories of Diversity from Ukraine, Poland and Turkey

Publications

• "Move ahead through movies 2." Education manual for students, Gaydash A.V., Redka I.A., Klymchuk (Ostropachenko) Y.V., Bezpalova N.P. - K.: Kyiv, Borys Grinchenko Kyiv University., 2014. – 120 p. The second part has been designed for university students studying humanities, basics of cinema.
• "Move ahead through movies." Study guide for university students majoring in "6.020303 Philology.", Klymchuk (Ostropalchenko) Y.V., Gaydash A.V. - K.: Kyiv. Borys Grinchenko Kyiv University. 2013. – 76 p.

In Preparation

• "Interplay and dissonances of Ukrainian history in narratives of textbooks", Klymchuk (Ostropalchenko) Y.V.