Educational innovation studies as a complex system

Анотація

Educational innovations are defined as a complex, self-
renewing systemic formation, dependent on changing social and educa-
tional priorities. The system of educational innovations has been deve-
loped taking into account the methodological and historical bases of its
formation, defining the object and subject, classifications of innovations
in education, criteria for selection and implementation of innovative expe-
rience, quality of innovative activities. Based on the analysis of scientific
and theoretical approaches, the object of pedagogical innovation studies is
the innovation process, conditions, methods and results of its implemen-
tation, the subject is the relationship between the efficiency of innovation
processes and its determining factors, as well as ways of influencing these
factors in order to increase the effectiveness of changes. The conceptual
and categorical apparatus of educational innovations has been defined.
The paper demonstrates diverse scientific views in the interpretation of its
essence leading to the coexistence of different approaches in typologization
and classification of pedagogical innovations. The scope, innovative poten-
tial, and scale of transformations are considered the main peculiarities of
innovations. The empirical part presents the results of the scientific con-
textual Master’s project “Innovative Experimental Educational Systems”
implemented at the National Pedagogical Dragomanov University (Kyiv,
Ukraine). The “quality of innovation activities” is considered a promising
trend in the further study of educational innovation problems. Pedagogi-
cal universities are defined as the centres of forming students” ability to
analyse, summarize, select innovative pedagogical experience, design and
persistently introduce it into educational practice.