PSYCHOPEDAGOGY OF PROJECT ACTIVITY OF THE TERRITORIAL COMMUNITY UNIT IN CONDITIONS OF DECENTRALIZATION

Abstract

The article analyzes the experience of organizing the project activities of the educational unit of the territorial community as a form of its democratic behavior in the context of decentralization reform. Based on the generalization of the views of the American philosopher and educator D. Dewey, the pedagogical system of A. Makarenko, the experience of the relevant work of civil society in Switzerland, USA and official documents, including the Constitution of Ukraine (1996) and the Concept of Development of Civic Education in Ukraine (2018), etc., a project-oriented algorithm of educational center of civil society work in terms of educational institutions as centers of territorial communities is presented. This algorithm was tested during psychological and pedagogical expeditions in a number of regions of Ukraine in the form of training. It provides 5 stages that correspond to the principles and procedures of democracy, the principles of forming a unit of civil society, the organization of its productive work, in particular: 1. Gatherings of community members, its self-organization and legal training. 2. Nomination of urgent initiatives, problems, discussion of proposals and their priority by voting. 3. Formation of projects of the decision of priority problems by the unit, and their acceptance by referendum. 4. Mobilization of public, state, personnel, financial resources for the implementation of accepted projects. 5. Implementation of projects.
This algorithm, training and technology based on it are implemented through a sequence of actions of the educational unit of civil society, corresponding to the specifics and schedule of the territorial community and the unit of civil society. The structure of the project includes such components as: analysis of the voted priority problem; adoption of the project name; goal setting; definition of methods, implementors, resources, terms of implementation; control and responsibility for implementation; forecasting the expected effect; organization of cooperation between civil society, government and state agencies; technical and economic design of the adopted project in the action plan and its further innovative promotion. This technology needs further improvement in certain areas.
Key words: reform of government decentralization; territorial community; democratization of education; psychopedagogical principles; educational unit; project activity; algorithm and training.