PSYCHOLOGICAL AND PEDAGOGICAL CONDITIONS FOR THE FORMATION OF SAFE ENVIRONMENT IN HIGHER EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS

Abstract. The objects of the study are the structure of the educational environment of the university and the ideas of first-year students of the psychological and pedagogical direction about a psychologically safe educational environment. The relevance is due to the need to form educational environment that promotes the emotional well-being of students and the lack of data on the most significant components of the educational environment for them in terms of psychological safety. The main research methods are questionnaires and frequency analysis of students' associations with the concept of psychological safety of the educational environment. We carried out a frequency analysis of associations and divided the most frequent of them into semantic clusters corresponding to the components of the educational environment. The analysis showed that the pedagogical conditions contributing to the formation of a psychologically safe educational environment of the university include communicative and mediation competencies of teachers, an effective system of interaction between the administration and all subjects of the educational environment and forms and methods of teaching aimed at self-actualization and disclosure of the students’ personal potential. A conclusion was made about the possibility of using the research results to develop programs for supporting teachers, including diagnostic, informational and formative blocks.