Keyword: «environmental level»

The relevance of the problem of educational environments differentiation is due to the fact that with a sufficiently complete and in-depth study of such a pedagogical phenomenon as the educational environment, the question of systematization and generalization of scientific knowledge about certain types of educational environments regarding the specifics of the modern situation of socio-cultural development of an individual and society remains unclear. The authors of publications on the topic of educational environments mainly focus their attention on the study of some specific educational environment, at a specific educational level focused on achieving specific educational results. In addition, the specificity of scientific ideas about educational environments in domestic and foreign studies is not fully correlated both in terminological and substantive terms. The aim of the article is to generalize scientific ideas about educational environments, to substantiate the method of their differentiation in direct connection with the context of modern human existence. Systemic and competence-based approaches have been adopted as leading approaches to the study of the problem of differentiation of educational environments, since: 1) reliance on the systemic approach ensures integrity, consistency of research logic and validity of scientific conclusions; 2) the competence-based approach allows for an analysis of existing educational environments from the point of view of their influence on the formation of personality, on the one hand, and the possibilities for an individual to acquire new competences through involvement in the educational environment, based on personal existential choice. The main result of the article was the presentation of a new three-level approach to the differentiation of educational environments, which is an attempt to cover the entirety of the environmental diversity of the modern transitive world, in which the development, formation of personality and existence of modern people take place. The theoretical significance of the article lies in the attempt to cumulatively apply the results of psychological and pedagogical research dedicated to educational environments to solve the problem of educational environments differentiation in the context of modern life. The practical significance of the article lies in the fact that the obtained scientific result can serve as the basis for subsequent study of the entire variety of educational environments of formation, professional and personal self-realization, and the life of a modern person.