ABSTRACT
Ukraine is a country with old traditions of education, laid down in pre-and early-Christian times. The schools of Kiev Rus, Galicia (Volyn principality) put forth a functioning system of public education of Old Rus states based on Christian values. The education was clearly religious; its structure also included secular sciences of that time. Without plunging into the full history of Ukrainian education,1wewill focus on analyzing the current state of religious education inUkraine, and today’s challenges. Here, one first needs to examine some “obvious” questions: What is religious education? Under what conditions is it possible? Does religious education in modern Ukraine exist as a system and, if so, what are its condition and perspectives? And finally, what problems are there in the Ukrainian experience and how can those problems be solved?
