educational environment

This article analyzes the conditions as well as goals and objectives for the research activity within the learning process in a secondary school. Author examines research activity as a means of students’ self-affirmation and notes its positive impact.

The article presents the results of a theoretical analysis of the problem of understanding the educational environment in modern psychology. Different approaches to the definition of the concept and construction of models of educational environments. The author’s definition of the educational environment and interactions with her pupils.

The concept of environment is far from being a novelty in pedagogy. Along with this, at the present stage of the development of the environmental approach the following issues are actual: is the environmental approach a unity of qualitatively specific pedagogical principles alien to other approaches or does it present one of the educational technologies or its element (factor, resource or a means)?

The relevance of the research is determined by the need to transform the educational environment of a modern university. Such environment is one of the conditions for the eff ective development of a student-innovator, who is motivated to carry out research and design, capable of searching for original ideas, innovative solutions, and project implementation.

The article substantiates that children's summer camp can be considered as an object of high risk. The risks meeting in its educational environment are considered. The author presents experimental research materials on revealing of features of perception of the risks connected with summer children's camp, teenagers and parents.

The article considers the problem of students adaptation to the educational environment of university in terms of ecopsychological approach.

The article describes the methodological foundations of psychological and pedagogical study of risks of suboptimal pupil interactions and learning environment from the standpoint of environmental psychology.

Since theological seminaries have become a part of the educational system of the Russian Federation, they are now subject to state licensing and have to gain accreditation. This requires a revision of means and effective educational principles in the higher theological school. In this regard, the issue of the educational environment development contributes to a rethink of developmental strategies and helps to determine new ones. Moreover, it stimulates the search for additional interaction forms of the teachers and students.

The increasing complexity of quantitative and qualitative characteristics of the educational environment prompts the research aimed at investigating the modern social and cultural landscape and identifying acmeological mechanisms of social and psychological aspects of the school safe climate. The theoretical framework of the study was based on the concept of "cultural traditions" proposed by D. B. Zilberman and devoted to normative and value types of attitudes to reality.

The relevance of the topic under study is conditioned by the dissatisfaction of both teachers and students with their relations with each other, which primarily blocks the formation of subjectness, student activity, including that in educational activities. The purpose of the study presented in the article is to study the possibility of predetermining constructiveness of interaction between teachers and students through personal and communicative qualities of teachers.