Educational Design Department

The establishment of the Department of Educational Design is driven by the urgent need to modernize the educational (upbringing) process in general secondary education institutions in the context of social transformations and crisis phenomena. The events of recent years—war, forced migration, and the digitalization of social interactions—have caused significant changes in the development, needs, and lived experiences of modern learners. Under such conditions, traditional models of educational work lose their effectiveness, as they fail to take into account the impact of crisis factors and the specifics of the digital environment in which the personality is formed.

The demand of the education system for innovative, project-based, and scientifically grounded approaches to educating students who are capable of adapting, maintaining psychological resilience, developing value orientations, and achieving personal self-realization, has led to the establishment of a specialized research unit whose mission is to integrate research and applied work in the field of education (upbringing).

Department Mission. To provide scientific and methodological support for the modernization of the educational (upbringing) process in institutions of various types through the development, piloting, implementation, and dissemination of innovative educational models and technologies in the context of crisis situations and digital environments.

Department Objectives:

● To conduct fundamental and applied research on issues of educational design in contemporary social and educational conditions.

● To develop models and technologies for the educational process in crisis situations and digital environments.

● To scientifically substantiate and experimentally verify the effectiveness of innovative educational models and project-based technologies.

● To develop methodological recommendations, tools, and educational materials for use in general secondary and out-of-school education institutions.

● To determine mechanisms and pedagogical conditions for implementing research results into educational practice.

● To provide training and professional development for teachers regarding the use of project-based and digital technologies in education (upbringing).

● To systematize, disseminate, and popularize research results through academic publications, digital resources, conferences, and methodological events.

● To develop partnership networks with experimental education institutions, research organizations, and civil society institutions.

The Department of Educational Design was established on April 1, 2025, based on the merger of two research units of the Institute:

The Laboratory of Education for Labour Market Readiness (until 2020 titled the Laboratory of Labour Education and Career Guidance)

The Laboratory of Physical Development and Healthy Lifestyles

The mission of the Laboratory of Education for Labour Market Readiness was the theoretical and methodological substantiation of innovative technologies for forming the psychological and practical readiness of the growing personality for work; the scientific and practical support of the process of conscious and well-grounded specialized and professional self-determination; and the creation of a scientific-methodological foundation for the general modernization of the system of labour education and career guidance for students in general secondary education institutions in the conditions of the modern labour market.

The mission of the Laboratory of Physical Development and Healthy Lifestyles was the theoretical and methodological substantiation of military-patriotic and physical education of student youth, the development of a scientific and methodological foundation for establishing a system of military-patriotic and physical education in general secondary education institutions, and the creation of innovative technologies for fostering readiness among high school students for military service and the defense of Ukraine under wartime conditions.

Until 2016, the laboratory of physical development and healthy lifestyle was called the laboratory of physical development.

The purpose of the laboratory's activities was the theoretical and methodological substantiation of military-patriotic and physical education of schoolchildren, the development of a scientific and methodological basis for creating a system of military-patriotic and physical education of schoolchildren in secondary education institutions, innovative technologies for the formation of readiness for military service and defense of Ukraine in wartime among senior students. The main areas of activity of the laboratory were: studying domestic and foreign experience of military-patriotic and physical education of schoolchildren, features of military-patriotic and physical education of junior schoolchildren, junior (senior) teenagers and high school students. Approbation of the content, forms and methods of ensuring the unity of military-patriotic and physical education of schoolchildren, research of the features of military-patriotic and physical education of schoolchildren in conditions of wartime; analysis of the pedagogical theory and practice of forming in high school students readiness for military service and defense of Ukraine; discovery of psychological and pedagogical patterns of military-patriotic and physical education of junior schoolchildren, junior (senior) teenagers and high school students; approbation of the content, forms and methods of forming in high school students readiness for military service and defense of Ukraine in modern conditions; justification and experimental verification of the effectiveness of pedagogical conditions of military-patriotic and physical education of students of general secondary education institutions; conducting consultations for practical workers of general secondary education institutions; developing educational and methodological support for military-patriotic and physical education of students of general secondary education institutions; preparing educational and methodological literature on the problems of military-patriotic and physical education of students of general secondary education institutions.

Only with the permission of the institution's administration.