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A LIFELONG EDUCATION SYSTEM IN THE CONTEXT OF A REGIONAL INNOVATIVE EDUCATION TECHNOPARK
Y.A. Boyarkina
The education environment as a combination of conditions for the implementation of learning can only be modern and innovative if it provides full-fledged support to the self-guided work of learners (both teachers and students), offers modern logistical support in the educational process, interacts with society and takes into account the mandate of the production sector.
In the forecast period up to 2020, the Tyumen Region will remain the main source of hydrocarbon raw materials in Russia. The fuel and energy industry currently generates the major proportion of innovation in the region. Other industries that will develop in the forthcoming period include the integrated industries of oil and gas processing and oil and gas chemistry, oil machine building and new clusters, such as forestry, construction and the construction materials industries. This is why engineering and technical professions are currently in demand in the regional industrial sector.
We are currently observing a phenomenon where staff employed by the production sector lack required qualifications, and cross-disciplinary and multi-level training programs developed within the education system do not take into account the needs of the production industry. The creation of the proposed innovative education environment is focused on raising a personality who meets the requirements of the innovative development of the economy by providing the continuity of the professional education process. For this objective to be achieved, the following tasks need to be accomplished: (a) ensure the continuity and succession of education programs at different levels in the context of the variability and standardization of school education; (b) create a system of networking between education institutions and professional education institutions which would extend the capabilities of the professional training of students in natural and mathematical sciences; (c) create conditions for the implementation of lifelong education modules oriented toward the regional labor market in terms of organization, procurement, human resources and methodology; (d) introduce mechanisms for the interaction between professional education institutions and the production sector to ensure that additional material, and intellectual and other resources, are allocated to education.
An educational environment built subject to the above-listed tasks will provide the opportunity to train highly qualified specialists in a single educational environment that will develop their skills, starting from kindergarten
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and ending with the training of qualified specialists to work in the production sector. In essence, we propose creating a new form of the territorial integration of educational institutions, science and production by combining their resources to provide shared access to the research activity of young people and innovative training equipment in order to secure the principle of continuity and succession in education.
Региональный инновационный... REGIONAL INNOVATIVE EDUCATION TECHNOPARK
Взрослые Adults
Дети, молодежь Children, young people
Нормативно-правовое. Legal support:
Методическое. Methodical and methodological support for teachers:
Естественно научные. Natural science resource centers:
Техническое. Engineering dimension (developing a technical product):
Художественно-эстетическое. Art, aesthetics and design dimension
Разработка программ. Development of programs, teaching materials and program support
- обучение, стажировки - training and internships
- социальные пробы,. - social approbations and practices
Детский сад Kindergarten Primary school
Старшая школа. Senior school Resource Center on the basis of primary professional education, secondary professional education and higher education
Конструирование.. Design, programming elements, introduction to robotics
Применение в технике. Engineering applications, robotics technology; Robotics, Inventions
Научные лаборатории. Scientific laboratories, programming of equipment
НПО, СПО, ВУЗ Primary professional education, secondary professional education, higher education
Производство. Production sector (develops a social mandate)
Рис. 1 Fig. 1
One of the drivers of interest in the engineering professions among students is to develop an informed professional choice by involving them in scientific and technical creative work, natural scientific research and robotics design from childhood. The system of step-by-step involvement of children in inventive work will not only promote the quality of general education in disciplines of natural science but also effectively improve professional
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training of specialists in professional educational institutions for engineering. This approach to the education of children and young people in the Tyumen Region can be implemented through the creation of a Regional Innovative Education Technopark, an innovative educational environment combining all levels of education.
The "education technopark” is a technology of the future, a model of pedagogical interaction (see Fig. 1). The innovative educational environment is intended for both young people and adults (teachers) on the basis of the following modules: Natural Science Resource Centers, Engineering Dimension, and Art, Aesthetics and Design Dimension (for children); Process Legal Support and Methodical and Methodological Support of Teachers (for adults). The modules may be implemented either on an integrated or individual basis. Each subsequent module extends the capabilities of the system. Modules, in their turn, vary in terms of teaching aids applied, rendering them more accessible to teachers and students in the region.
The Natural Science Resource Centers module brings together institutions of pre-school, general (primary, basic and secondary), professional and additional education linked through partnerships with production enterprises in the region.
The Engineering Dimension module is a structural unit of a secondary or higher educational institution and ensures the implementation of the innovative education principle. The module forms the basis for training students, retraining technology engineers and workers and creating prototypes for high-technology industries, which ensures the integration of primary and secondary professional education and industrial enterprises in the region and interaction with general education institutions.
The Art, Aesthetics and Design Dimension module is a structural unit of the Engineering Dimension. It ensures that students who do not have an aptitude for engineering but are interested in and demonstrate an aptitude for the arrangement and design of technical structures are involved in engineering activities.
As for the modules intended for adults (Process Legal Support and Methodical and Methodological Support of Teachers), they both provide support for teachers working with young people at the level of advanced training and mastering modern digital equipment on the basis of publicly available resource centers and govern legal and regulatory relationships between all structural elements of the innovative education environment — the Regional Innovative Education Technopark.
The implementation of this innovative education environment in the educational practices of the region will help achieve the following out-
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comes: first, increased interest from school leavers in the engineering professions of knowledge-intensive production sectors; second, an increase in the number of students enrolled in engineering majors; third, an increase in the number of participants and winners of competitions in engineering and natural sciences; fourth, an improvement in the level of training of highly professional staff for working in modern production by implementing the principle of continuity and succession of education, which, correspondingly, will contribute to producing competitive graduates of professional education institutions in the engineering professions and occupations that are in demand in the region.
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