On March 22, 2023, the leading specialist of the Institute of History, Ethnology and Archeology of the Carpathians Bohdan Paska took part in the meeting of the expert commission on history of the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine. The meeting was chaired by the head of the Department of source studies and special historical disciplines of the Institute of Historical Education of the Mykhailo Drahomanov National Pedagogical University, Doctor of Science, prof. Oleksandr Valentynovych Potylchak (chairman of the expert commission). The secretary was a senior researcher of the Department of scientific, educational, and methodological support of the content of general secondary education at the State Scientific Institution “Institute of Modernization of the Content of Education”, candidate of science in science. Olena Kostyantynivna Gurska.
During the meeting, 11 objects of marking were considered – textbooks from the courses “History of Ukraine”, “World History”, “History: Ukraine and the World” intended for students of the 10th grade. During the meeting, several textbooks were rejected by the decision of the expert commission due to their inconsistency with the curriculum and rather serious comments from the experts. Bohdan Paska presented an expert opinion on the textbook on the integrated course “History: Ukraine and the World” for consideration by the commission. The expert’s opinion was supported and approved by the expert commission.