ARPHA Proceedings 5: 1385-1402, doi: 10.3897/ap.5.e1385
Personal and Professional Development of Military University Cadets during the Pandemic
expand article infoTatyana S. Prosvetova, Vladimir F. Lazukin, Alla V. Safonova
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Abstract
The purpose of the study is to examine the model of organizing the information and educational environment of a military university in extreme conditions (under pandemic conditions). The research relied on the theoretical methods: the analysis of scientific pedagogical and military pedagogical literature concerning the research problem, comparison, correlation, synthesis, generalization of the findings; empirical methods: survey, opinion poll, interview; statistical methods: comprising grouping, ranking, scaling. The data was collected at the Military Educational and Scientific Center of the Air Force “Air Force Academy named after Professor N. Ye. Zhukovsky and Yu. A. Gagarin” in Voronezh. The sample comprised 300 cadets. The study identified the socio-pedagogical and psycho-pedagogical conditions for the personal and professional development of cadets. These are the willingness of the teaching staff and commanders to carry out educational activities within the information and educational environment of a military university along with pedagogical and moral training activities; cadets’ involvement in an independent creative search, their ability to use independently information and communications technologies of the Air Force Academy, and their motivation to use learning support materials in different academic subject areas. The results of the study emphasized the relevance and importance of pedagogical and moral training resources in the information and educational environment of a military university.
Keywords
higher military educational organization, socio-pedagogical conditions, psycho-pedagogical conditions, reflection