Rural schools: a model for achieving targets for personal development in a psychologically comfortable educational environment

Abstract

Introduction. Regulatory documents in the field of education clearly indicate the requirement to build a developing educational environment in each educational organization. At the same time, psychological comfort is an important condition for its functioning. To study the formation and support of such an environment is an urgent problem for rural schools, especially in the context of achieving the goals of developing the actual qualities of the personality of the information world. The purpose of the research is to justify and develop a model for achieving targets for personal development in a psychologically comfortable educational environment in a rural school. Materials and methods of the research. The main method is the triadic method of information criteria. Additional methods are the analysis of literary works on the problem and modeling. Research results. The model for achieving targets for personal development in a psychologically comfortable educational environment in a rural school has scientific justification and textual and graphical expression (design). The model is presented in steps. It has 7 levels, which together determine options for forming of personality traits that are in demand by modern challenges and threats as a component of the “21st century skills” for students in rural schools. The model determines the total of probable forms of the educational environment, identified according to the criterion "the possibility of developing personality traits that are in demand in the modern world, subject to psychological comfort". It allows a) to identify possible combinations of these personal qualities that determine the creation of different variations-types of the educational environment; b) to analyze the directions and trajectories which can be used to form and develop the environment for the required personality parameters. The model is an analogue of a morphological box, which, taking into account the context of a particular rural school, allows to determine the most optimal way for developing personality traits in an educational environment “tuned” for the priority improvement of independence, initiative, involvement, subjectivity, reflexivity and confidence of all subjects. Significance of the research. The results of the study develop the pedagogical theory of the educational environment in the context of achieving the goals of modern education and ensuring the psychological well-being of subjects. The developed model can be applied not only in rural schools, but also in urban ones, adjusted for a specific context. As for the managerial aspect, the result in the form of a model is valuable knowledge for administrative workers of educational organizations of any type.