On February 28, 2024, 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 Mykhailo Drahomanov Ukrainian State University, prof. Oleksandr Valentinovych Potylchak (chairman of the expert commission) and Yevtushenko Raisa Ivanivna, chief specialist of the department of educational content, language policy and education of national minorities of the department of general secondary and preschool education of the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine. The secretary was a senior researcher of the department of scientific and educational and methodological support of the content of general secondary education at the State Scientific Institution “Institute of Modernization of the Content of Education”, PhD Olena Kostyantynivna Hurska.
During the meeting, 10 objects of marking were considered – textbooks from the courses “History of Ukraine”, “World History” intended for students of the 11th grade. Bohdan Paska presented for consideration by the commission an expert opinion on the textbook from the study course “History of Ukraine (standard level)” for the 11th grade authored by Oleksandr Hisem and Oleksandr Martyniuk. The expert’s opinion was supported and approved by the expert commission. The commission offered to send the textbook for thorough revision, taking into account the expert’s comments.