In today’s episode we welcome Taras! He has experience working with curriculum reforms in Ukraine, as well as in other jobs and studying there. We discuss the complex process of curriculum reforms and his role in this, which also brings us to the topic of corruption and plagiarism. Taras has a moral and philosophical answer to this, but also a more instrumental one. If we trust students, explain plagiarism and motivate them intrinsically, is control still necessary?  How are plagiarism controls executed? And although we can’t compare curriculum systems one to one, we can compare programs. In which way do the programs Taras followed differ from each other? What are the different educational approaches? Taras concludes the episode by showing the importance of education and learning for yourself and throughout your entire life.

These are the books Taras is currently reading: The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism by Max Weber, and Churchill and Orwell by Thomas E. Ricks.

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