SAFE EDUCATIONAL ENVIRONMENT: NEW CHALLENGES AND INNOVATIVE SOLUTIONS AT THE PRYDNIPROVSKA STATE ACADEMY OF CIVIL ENGINEERING AND ARCHITECTURE

Abstract

Problem statement. Carrying out its mission in the extremely difficult circumstances of the war, the Ukrainian pedagogical community remains at the forefront of the educational front. Taking on a new, higher level of responsibility, the scientific and pedagogical team of the Prydniprovska State Academy of Civil Engineering and Architecture (PSACEA) (Dnipro city) is among the ranks of educators. The full-scale invasion of the Russian Federation on the territory of Ukraine forced us to rethink the role of education and change our view of the educational environment of our institution of higher education. In the first place, next to the traditional requirements for the educational environment, came the requirement of safety, i.e. the need to create a safe educational environment. In the martial law conditions in Ukraine, a priority goal of the state is to preserve the life and health of its citizens, especially young people, by ensuring their access to education. Access to education in war-time is the organisation of a safe educational environment. A safe educational environment is the surrounding space of an educational institution created in accordance with the institution educational goals, in which the educational process is carried out and the necessary and sufficient conditions for its participants to effectively and safely achieve the goals of education and upbringing are created. This is confirmed in the regulatory document “Concept of Educational Institutions Safety”, which aims to create equal, appropriate and safe conditions for education, to organise a safe educational environment, in particular in the of the russian federation military aggression context against Ukraine. The implementation period of this Concept is 2023−2025. The methodological framework for ensuring a safe educational environment is set out in the letter of the State Emergency Situations Service of Ukraine No. 03-1870/162-2 dated 14.06.2022. This methodological framework provides for a wide range of components for the preservation and provision of a set of objects and their attitudes to the realisation of educational goals.