Risk management of educational projects: substantiation of essential semantic units

Importance. The scale of implementation of educational projects in the Russian Federation is growing. Various federal projects, roadmaps for the development of education, strategies and policies for shaping the future of education, etc. are being developed. The results of our own research on risk management of educational projects are compared with the essential features characterising the current state of risk management of educational projects. The aim of the research is to substantiate the essential features identified and formulated in the course of this study, reflecting the meanings and values of the process of risk management of educational projects Materials and Methods. Texts of scientific articles, documents of applications for the status of the republican innovation site, documents summarising the work experience of the contestants in the field of educational projects in the republican contest “Teacher of the Year of the UR”, documents regulating educational projects within the framework of the National Project “Education”, documents aimed at the development of pedagogical education and training of pedagogical staff, texts of educational programmes of higher education–bachelor’s, master’s, and postgraduate courses. The research has been carried out using the methods of content analysis, critical discourse, reflexive problematisation, comparison and synthesis. Results and Discussion. The semantic units of the construct “risk management of educational projects” are highlighted and classified, and the results of our own research on each semantic unit are collated with the actual state of risk management processes. The study demonstrates that the risk management of educational projects is changing, the expert community is including risk management as an integral element in its activities, while the institutionalisation of risk management of educational projects is in the stage of methodological development. Conclusion. The activity of the subject of the educational project already includes risk management, while the process is built on the conscious use of an interdisciplinary approach, requiring special training, including the subject's awareness of the norms, rules, and regularities of risk management.