POLITICAL CRISIS AS A COMMON “TREND” IN DEVELOPMENT OF THE NATIONAL SYSTEMS OF EDUCATION IN ARAB COUNTRIES (BY THE EXAMPLE OF SYRIA, LIBYA AND IRAQ)

There are 22 Arab countries in the world that occupy the territory of the Middle East and North Africa. These are not countries united only by the same language and common religion. This is the community of states that have been developing under similar conditions: their separate identity was linked with colonialist principles, was further replaced by periods of revolutions and struggles for independence, with a following period of cooperation with Soviet Union, let them implement some of the Soviet methods and strategies, and was further shifted, giving a space to their individual path of development, and later – civil confrontation within the context of Arab spring. All these countries of the above-mentioned region have much more similarities than differences.

Political crisis as a social factor, without a doubt, has an impact on the process of formation and development of social institutions. And the major one of them is the system of education. Having analyzed all elements of it – starting from the structure of education management system, moving to the content of education and trends, shaping the national systems of education, we asked a question: how similar are the consequences of the political crisis for the systems of education in the Arab region? That’s what made us purpose a further attempt to analyze the systems of education that were affected by the political crisis (by the example of Syria, Iraq and Libya).