METHODOLOGICAL PRINCIPLES OF FORMING EDUCATIONAL ENVIRONMENT OF THE MODERN UNIVERSITY

Abstract

The article reveals the methodological principles of formation of the educational environment of the modern university as an actual problem of the philosophy of education, a factor and means of functioning of a modern university; traces the development of the educational environment of the Drohobych Ivan Franko State Pedagogical University in the cultural and historical circumstances of the late 20th and early 21st centuries during the period of the administrative, scientific, pedagogical activity of Professor Valeriy Skotnyi (1948–2011). Professor V. Skotnyiʼs scientific, administrative, organizational, managerial, pedagogical activity was connected with the basic philosophical questions regarding the relation of theory and practice, determined the problems of his scientific researches, positioned the name of Professor V.Skotnyi among the first in the history of the development of the philosophy of education in Ukraine the end of the XX – beginning of the XXI century. In his managerial work Rector V. Skotnyi and the teaching personnel of the University (until 1998, the Institute) were guided by the results of the change: with the satisfaction of universalism and the requirements of the fundamental preparation of the challenges and needs of the industrial society for the democratization of the educational process. Understanding of pedagogy as an applied philosophy predetermined the way of philosophical substantiation of the decision of managerial problems, outlined the subject field of individual scientific interests, encouraged the organization of publishing in the educational environment of the university, and determined the direction of philosophical and pedagogical searches in the universityʼs research work. The managerial activity of Professor V. Skotnyi purposefully changed the educational environment of the Drohobych Pedagogical University on the basis of human-centrism, the rule of law, transparency and publicity in the adoption of managerial decisions, ensuring the quality of education, integration into international educational and scientific space, etc., which had a favorable effect on all the components of the educational process including its final result – a good specialist.