New Valeological Disciplines in Ukrainian Electrical and Power Engineering Education

Abstract

For effective health-saving, a student of an electrical, power engineering and engineering-pedagogical study profile must develop valeological competence, which implies the ability to lead a healthy lifestyle, practice safe behaviors and provide emergency first aid to people in critical condition. The formation of such competence occurs under the condition of teaching students special disciplines – “Valeology”, “Fundamentals of Medical Knowledge”, <tex xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">$\prime$</tex> 'Fundamentals of Life Safety”, “Health Pedagogy”. Partially, this task is performed by related disciplines - “Labor Protection”, “Fundamentals of Ecology”, etc. The article analyzes the experience of creating new valeological disciplines “Fundamentals of Medical Knowledge” and “Health Pedagogy”, testing them in two Kharkiv's electrical, power engineering and engineering-pedagogical higher education institutions in 2019–2022. Comparison of expectations from the discipline of students and expert opinion on the “weight” distribution of topics in the construction of a factor-criteria qualimetric model of valeological competence, which must be formed among students, is carried out. The principles of creating new author's programs of valeological disciplines are determined and ways of improving the reputation of “Valeology” in the Ukrainian society and the scientific community are shown.