THE NOTION OF THE EDUCATIONAL ENVIRONMENT IN THE CONCEPT OF THE PROJECT-ORIENTED MANAGEMENT OF THE UNIVERSITY STUDENTS’ PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
The article discusses the essence of the University’s educational environment, its connection with the social situation of the development and its importance in the management of the students’ professional development. The notion of the educational environment in the concept of the project-oriented management of the students’ professional development has been revealed while substantiation of the three models of the University’s educational environment implementation: the monopolar model, the bipolar model and the project-oriented one. The essential features of each model of the University’s educational environment has been determined. Those of the monopolar model are as follows: rather rigid interrelation of the purpose and the result achieved by using the technologies aimed at the students mastering the content of education, managed by the educational standards, and standardization of the contents and the process of interaction. As for the binary model, the development of the autonomy and subjectivity of a student are the main features. As for the project-oriented model, its features are the harmonization of the interaction’s goals, the main idea of which is the correlation of the professional values and the personality’s values, revealing the axiological aspect of the educational project’s contents. Monopolar and binary educational environment have the same target that is the enhancement of the quality of the students’ professional training as the quality of mastering their academic (subject) content of the education, but monopolar and binary models differ in the means of the achievement. The objective of the project educational environment is the personality and the process of the student’s individual professional development in the process of mastering the axiological (‘non-subject’) content of the profession and higher education.