The Role of Academic Departments in Organizing Students’ Scientific Research Work in Psychological and Pedagogical Classes

Abstract

The article substantiates the role of academic departments in organizing scientific research work of students in psychological and pedagogical classes. The essence of specialized psychological and pedagogical classes is characterized and defined as a certain structure within educational organizations demonstrating its own specific characteristics. The study identifies the need for organizing students’ scientific research work, which allows expressing their intellectual potential through participation in the project, creative, and scientific research activities. The role of the pedagogical university academic department members who develop the scientific and methodological support for the program in organizing the educational process in specialized psychological and pedagogical classes is determined. The specifics of the academic department’s organization of the scientific research work of students in psychological and pedagogical classes at different levels of training, the propaedeutic, pre-profile, and profile, are disclosed.