Ecological and personal model of the innovation environment preschool educational organizations: professional and pedagogical aspect

Introduction . In the modern information society, innovation is a strategic resource that largely determines the competitiveness of any organization, including preschool education. In this regard, it becomes important to search for effective management mechanisms for the competent introduction of innovations into preschool practice. One of these mechanisms is the creation of an innovative environment in a preschool educational organization that is favorable for generating new ideas, creating and introducing innovations into the pedagogical process that significantly increase its effectiveness. An analysis of the scientific literature shows that this problem has not been systematically considered, and therefore there are no scientifically sound approaches to its solution. This fact makes it relevant to determine the methodological guidelines for modeling the innovative environment of a preschool educational organization. Materials and methods . Interdisciplinary theoretical analysis of psychological, managerial, pedagogical, and economic literature on the problems of innovation, environment and environmental education, and innovation management; a method for modeling the innovative environment of a preschool educational organization. Results . In the context of the ecological and personal approach and based on the structural and functional model of the educational environment developed by V.A. Yasvin, a model of the innovative environment of a preschool educational organization has been created, including socio-psychological, spatial, subject and activity components. In this model, the innovation environment is defined as a qualitative characteristic of the professional and pedagogical environment, a source and factor of successful creative activity of the teacher and as a resource for the development of a personality type with creative thinking. It is shown that a significant feature of such an environment is the unity of opportunities and conditions for innovation. Discussion and conclusions . The developed ecological and personal model of the innovative environment of a pre-school educational organization, revealing its essential characteristics, such as the duality of nature, dynamism, manageability, system-structural and event-situational organization, a resource for professional and personal development of a teacher, deepens scientific understanding of this phenomenon of pedagogical reality.