Future Learning Design Podcast Transformative Education for the Future of Ukraine - A Conversation with Yuliia Naidych, Marie Teich and Anastasia Tarasova
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Apr 11, 2026 Marie Teich, Kyiv-based researcher (PhD in digital humanities) building inquiry-driven higher education. Yuliia Naidych, Ukrainian educator co-founding Third Floor and creating alternative learning spaces. They discuss transforming education during crisis. They talk about keeping researchers in Ukraine, bridging academia with practitioners, summer schools as labs, and building intellectual sovereignty.
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Research And Education As One Unified Process
- Research and education must be one integrated process so students learn by joining real inquiry rather than receiving transmission.
- Marie argues inviting students into research makes them equals who can outgrow mentors, addressing quality and passion gaps in Ukrainian higher education.
Revolution Sparked Student-Led Reform At University
- Yuliia describes how the 2013 Revolution of Dignity connected demanding students across departments and seeded her educational activism.
- She used Maidan networks to push for university change and higher-quality education from within the student body.
Intellectual Sovereignty Matters For Ukraine's Future
- Ukraine needs intellectual sovereignty: local thinkers who can lead public sensemaking about national direction.
- Marie links this to keeping young researchers in-country to shape narratives rather than losing them to scholarships abroad.