Determinants for the Formation of a Fractality-Based Educational Environment in Engineering Pedagogical Education

This article shows a method based on fractals and determinants to design the educational environment and the training quality of future engineering teachers. The determinants are represented by the internal and external determination of the development of the educational environment, with internal determinants being determined by external ones. The fractal of the educational environment is considered as a self-similar structure, the scale of which is consistently reduced. The components of these structures are the educational standards, educational programs, educational disciplines and training units. The invariant component is based on the principle of a harmonious combination of paradigms of innovation and health-saving. The development of the educational environment was conducted on the example of professional training of engineering teachers of the Ukrainian Engineering Pedagogics Academy (Kharkiv, Ukraine). The fractal invariant of the innovation paradigm is implemented based on the disciplines “Innovative technologies and pedagogical consulting in vocational education” and “Pedagogical design in innovative space”. In order to implement the health-saving paradigm, the discipline “Health education” was introduced. The emphasis was placed on the need to attract specialists in the medical field for the development of this discipline. The proposed approach makes it possible to create an effective educational environment in engineering pedagogical education on the basis of fractals for the professional training of competent engineering teachers.