Healthcare Educational Process in Higher Schools – the Challenge of Time.

Abstract

Reforms in the educational system of Ukraine are accompanied by the reorientation of the purpose and results of education to the needs of the individual. In the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, the leading task of higher education is to ensure the young people the right to study according to their individual abilities in a favorable educational environment. Taking into account that researchers in the feld of psychology, pedagogy and medicine consider the environment of an educational institution one of the objects of high risk, we believe that one of the determining conditions for the effectiveness of the educational process is to ensure its healthcare aspect. Based on the analysis of the risks associated with the educational space, the article describes a healthcare educational environment as a factor in the productive development of the individual in the educational process. The factors of negative impact on the mental and physical health of students and the main characteristics of a healthcare educational environment are revealed; a number of psychological and pedagogical measures aimed at protecting all participants of the educational process from possible threats to their mental and physical health, in particular, in the conditions of the “corona crisis” are suggested. The focus is on the psychological support of the educational process, which should be carried out in close cooperation between the specialists of the psychological service of educational institutions and pedagogical workers.