EDUCATIONAL ENVIRONMENT AS AN ECOSYSTEM

Abstract

The article presents an analysis of the concept of “educational ecosystem”, which precedes a self-organizing, self-developing, self-regulating adaptive educational environment. The authors also describe the basic principles of emerging approaches in pedagogy: paradigmatic, network-centric and ecosystem, rethink some of the provisions of the environmental approach, taking into account the transformational processes of modern time. The article describes the paradigm approach in pedagogy as a set of principles: incommensurability of paradigms, revolutionary paradigm shift, incommensurability of paradigms, revolutionary paradigm shift, time limitation, dominance of one paradigm, scientific heuristics, system structure; reveals the essence of each of the principles in relation to scientific and pedagogical research. The network-centric approach in pedagogy is revealed in its principles: the integration of geographically disparate educational objects into one information network and the integration of management systems and computer modeling. Based on the ecosystem approach and its principles, the main features of the educational environment as an ecosystem are formulated as a conclusion, which include: versatility, adaptability, network bias, co-evolution of the environment and its subjects, and others.