Oleksandra Bandura

Oleksandra Mykhailivna Bandura (; – 4 September 2010) was a Soviet Ukrainian teacher and literature scholar who worked as an educator at the from 1951 until 1991 and as a senior researcher at the Department of the Methodology of Teaching History of Ukraine between 1956 and 1987. She was strongly interested in the issue concerning the creation of textbooks and the problem with educating the theory of teaching literature in school, and was the author of more than 110 scientific works. Bandura was made a laureate of the State Prize of Ukraine in Science and Technology in 1977.

Early life and education On , She had her primary education at the nearby village of Zhadran before she and her family fled to the city of Donetsk (then Stalino) due to the Holodomor, studying at the No. 10 School for seven years. When Bandura was 16 years old, she spent three months doing the pedagogical course and became a junior school teacher. She worked at Oles Honchar Dnipro National University before applying to study at the philological faculty of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv. Bandura took part in the Great Patriotic War on the Eastern Front. She took on advice from professor Oleksandr Doroshkevich to do methodological and scientific work. Bandura developed a strong interest in the issue concerning the creation of textbooks and the problem with educating the theory of teaching literature in school. She worked as a laboratory assistant in the Department of Ukrainian Literature Methodology, before becoming a junior assistant. Bandura was a recipient of the .