Regional educational space and regional education system: interrelation of concepts

The article is devoted to the study of regional features of education. The purpose of the study is to clarify the categories "regional educational space" and "regional education system”, as well as to determine their relationship. The main method of research is the analysis of scientific and pedagogical literature on this problem. The author suggests considering pedagogical regionology as a scientific and theoretical basis for a comprehensive study of regional education. Pedagogical regionology is presented as a direction integrating pedagogical, socio-philosophical and socio-psychological, geographical, historical, socio-economic aspects of the study of the education system. The definitions of the concepts “regional educational space” and “regional education system” are clarified, their interrelations and interrelations are revealed. The author comes to the conclusion that these concepts are close and interrelated, but not identical.