On November 7, 2020 the defenсe of the dissertation of the participant of the project O. I. Nefedchenko on the topic «Development of technologies of heuristic education in the Ukrainian higher pedagogical school (the end of the XX-th – beginning of the XXI-st century)» took place at the university.

As the quarantine related to the coronavirus pandemic has been introduced in the region and at the university, some members of the specialized scientific council attended the online meeting on the ZOOM platform.

In the discussion of the dissertation it has been emphasized that the research topic is very closely related to the problems of the scientific school of the supervisor prof. M.O. Lazarev and the field of activity of the postgraduate student herself, who is a high school lecturer. O.I. Nefedchenko actively uses in her professional activity a wide range of pedagogical technologies, which have been systematically characterized in the dissertation. The opponents of the study, in particular Doctor of Pedagogical Sciences, professor, professor of Kharkiv National Pedagogical University named after Hryhoriy Skovoroda Popova O.V., have emphasized the huge potential of using heuristic education technologies in the Ukrainian higher pedagogical school.