KNUTD
Kyiv National University of Technologies and Design

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Faculty of Arts and Fashion

DEPARTMENT OF PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION IN TECHNOLOGIES AND DESIGN

Alla SEMENOVA,

Head of the Department, Doctor of Pedagogy, Professor

Address: 

Academic building 4,
Rooms 320, 322
2, Mala Shyianovska (Nemyrovych-Danchenko) Str.
Kyiv, 01011

Phones: +38044-256-84-10, +38044-256-21-70

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About the Department
History of the Department

The origins of the Department of Professional Education in Technologies and Design at Kyiv National University of Technologies and Design date back to 1948 when the Department of Foreign Languages of the University (then the Kyiv Institute of Light Industry) established a section of the Russian language to train foreign citizens.  In 1971, this section developed into the Department of Russian Language.

After adopting the "Law on Languages in the Ukrainian SSR" in 1990, the Department was reorganized into the Department of Ukrainian and Russian Languages. In December 2002, it was called the Department of Pedagogy, Ukrainian and Russian Languages. In June 2008, it was given a new name - the Department of Pedagogy and Vocational Training. The Department was renamed the Department of Professional Education in Technologies and Design in 2017.

The first head of the Department (1971-1972) was Associate Professor Olena Erastivna Bednova. The Department was headed at different times by: 1983-2001 – PhD in Philology, Associate Professor Oleksii Pinchuk; 2001-2016 – PhD in Pedagogy, Associate Professor Liudmyla Zhytenova; 2016-2017 - Doctor of Pedagogy, Associate Professor Svitlana Babushko; 2017-2023 - Doctor of Pedagogy, Professor Tetiana Derkach; 2023-2024 - Doctor of Pedagogy, Associate Professor Maria Bilianska. Since 2025, the Department has been headed by Alla Semenova, Doctor of Pedagogy, Professor.

Academic Staff

The Department includes Doctors of Pedagogy, Professors, PhDs in Pedagogy and Psychology, Associate Professors.

Alla SEMENOVA, Doctor of Pedagogy, Professor, Head of the Department of Professional Education in Technologies and Design

In 1992, she graduated with honours from the Odesa Higher School of Metrology, Standardisation and Certification with a degree in metrology and electrical-thermal measurements. She began her teaching career in 1994 as a teacher of Basics of Computer Science and Computer Engineering at a secondary school in Odesa. During 1998-2002, she worked as a teacher of General Electrical Engineering and Microelectronics at Odesa Road Technical College. After graduating in 1997 from the South Ukrainian State Pedagogical University named after K.D. Ushynskyi with a degree in Physics and Computer Science, she did the postgraduate course from 1998 to 2001. In 2001, she defended her dissertation for a PhD degree in Pedagogy in the speciality ‘13.00.04 - Theory and Methods of Professional Education’ on the topic ”Professional Activity of a Teacher in Developing Creative Abilities of High School Students at the Lessons of the Natural and Mathematical Cycle”. From 2002 to 2008, she taught at the South Ukrainian State Pedagogical University named after K.D. Ushynskyi as an assistant, senior lecturer, and associate professor of the Department of Pedagogy. She was awarded the academic title of Associate Professor of the Department of Pedagogy in 2005. From 2008 to 2012, she worked as a professor at the Department of Legal Psychology and Journalism at the Odesa National Law Academy. In 2010-2017, she taught at the Odesa Regional Branch of the National School of Judges of Ukraine. From 2012 to 2020, she worked as a professor at Odesa National Polytechnic University, and as the founding director of the Pedagogical Excellence Training and Consulting Centre (2012). In 2015, she was awarded the academic title of Professor of the Department of Political Science. From 2018 to 2022, she worked as a professor at the Department of Standardisation of Conformity Assessment and Educational Measurement, and from 2019 to 2023, she was the Director of the Research Institute of Education Quality Assurance at the Odesa State Academy of Technical Regulation and Quality. From 2023 to 2024, she held the position of Professor, Leading Researcher at Odesa State University of Internal Affairs.

She is the founding author of the educational and scientific portal “Pedagogical Excellence of Higher Education Teacher”.

She is the author of more than 200 scientific and educational works, including 18 monographs; 14 textbooks and teaching aids on professional pedagogy, including her own interactive trainings using multimedia technologies in the educational process, more than 100 research papers in international and professional journals, and abstracts of reports of various levels. She has trained six PhDs in Pedagogy and one Doctor of Padagogy. She is a scholarship holder of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine for young scientists (2005-2007).

      

Rymma KYRYCHENKO, PhD in Psychology, Associate Professor

In 1997, she graduated with honours from the Pedagogical Department of the Ukrainian State Pedagogical University named after M.P. Drahomanov, specializing in practical psychology, pedagogy, and psychology (school). Her University qualification is a practising psychologist in educational institutions and a teacher of pedagogy and psychology. From 1997 to 2000, she worked as a psychologist at the Faculty of Military Training of Kyiv International Civil Aviation University. In 2004, she received her PhD degree in psychological sciences. From 2006 to 2012, she worked at Kyiv National University of Technologies and Design as a senior lecturer and then assistant professor at the Department of Political Science and Sociology. From 2012 to 2017, R. Kyrychenko held the position of associate professor at the Department of Professional Education in Technologies and Design. From 2017 to the present, Rymma Kyrychenko has been Associate Professor of the Department of Professional Education in Technologies and Design. She has published more than 60 scientific and scientific-methodical works, including those indexed in the Web of Science scientometric databases. She is the author of the educational and methodological manual for students of higher education institutions and teachers in co-authorship with Professor, Doctor of Pedagogical Sciences A.P. Kanishchenko, "System of work on text comprehension in primary school". R. Kyrychenko lectures in "General psychology", "Age and pedagogical psychology", "Psychology", "Psychology of professional activities", "Communicative processes in pedagogical activities", "Pedagogy and psychology of higher education", and "Psychology of self-knowledge and self-development".

  

Alla KOLODIAZHNA, PhD in Psychology, Associate Professor

Alla Kolodiazhna graduated from the Ukrainian State Pedagogical University named after M.P. Drahomanov (with the qualification of a teacher of the Ukrainian language and literature) and Kyiv City Pedagogical University named after B.D. Grinchenko (practical psychologist). At Kyiv National University of Technologies and Design, she has been working since 2002. In 2012, she defended her PhD thesis at Taras Shevchenko Kyiv National University in the specialty 19.00.01 - General Psychology, History of Psychology. She is the author of a number of scientific and methodological works. She lectures in "History of psychology", "Practicum of general psychology", "Imageology and the basics of engineering and pedagogical creativity", "Psychological technologies of image making", and "Personality psychology", "Basics of psychological counseling and psychocorrection".

  

Inna KOSIAK, PhD in Pedagogy, Associate Professor, Associate Professor of the Department of Professional Education in Technologies and Design (part-time)

In 1992, she graduated from Kyiv Technological Institute of Light Industry, majoring in "Fashion Design". After completing postgraduate studies at the National Pedagogical University named after M.P. Drahomanov. In 2013, she defended her PhD thesis and in 2016 obtained the academic title of associate professor. Since 2009, she has been teaching at the National Pedagogical University named after M.P. Drahomanov - assistant (2009-2013), since 2016 - associate professor of the Department of Industrial Engineering and Service of the National Pedagogical University named after M.P. Drahomanov. She has been working at KNUTD since 2023. She has published more than 80 scientific and scientific-methodological works. Among them, 35 scientific articles in domestic and 2 in foreign publications, including those indexed in the Web of Science scientometric database. She is the author of Educational and Professional Complexes in the specialty 015 Professional education. Design, 015 Professional education. Technology of light industry products.

She lectures in "Theory and history of pedagogy", "Theory and methods of professional education", "Theory and methods of educational work".

  

Aliona TYKHOMIROVA, PhD, Senior Lecturer at the Department of Professional Education in Technology and Design

In 2004, she graduated with honors from the Faculty of Education of Rivne State Humanitarian University with a degree in Primary Education and obtained the qualification of primary school teacher and practical psychologist in educational institutions. In 2006, she graduated with honors from the Faculty of Education of Rivne State Humanitarian University with a degree in Primary Education and obtained the qualification of Master of Pedagogical Education, lecturer in Primary Education Pedagogy at higher education institutions. In 2014, she obtained a degree in psychological sciences with a specialization in 19.00.07 – pedagogical and age psychology. From 2004 to 2020, she worked in the dean's office and as a methodologist at the department of Rivne State Humanitarian University. From 2020 to 2021, she held the position of practical psychologist at the Inter-School Training and Production Complex in the Svyatoshinsky district of Kyiv. Since 2024, she has been working at the Kyiv National University of Technologies and Design as the head of the training laboratory and senior lecturer at the Department of Professional Education in Technologies and Design. She is the author of a number of scientific and scientific-methodological works.

  

Maksym MOSKALOV, PhD, Associate Professor, Associate Professor of the Department of Professional Education in Technology and Design

Education: 1996-2001. Kyiv National University of Trade and Economics. Faculty of Commodity Science. Specialization: commodity science and commercial activity. Specialization: commodity science and trade in non-food products. Since March 2025 (on a voluntary basis) – Executive Secretary of the Admissions Committee of the State Educational Institution of Higher Education “University of Educational Management.” Since January 2025 – Guarantor of the educational and professional program “Crisis Psychology with the Basics of Psychotherapy.” Since September 10, 2024, Associate Professor of the Department of Psychology and Personal Development at the Educational and Scientific Institute of Management and Psychology of the State Higher Education Institution “University of Educational Management” of the National Academy of Pedagogical Sciences of Ukraine. From September 2018 to September 9, 2024, Associate Professor of the Department of Management Psychology at the Central Institute of Postgraduate Education of the State Higher Education Institution “University of Educational Management” of the National Academy of Pedagogical Sciences of Ukraine. September 2009 to September 2018: Associate Professor at the Department of General, Age and Pedagogical Psychology at the Borys Grinchenko University of Kyiv. From 2008 to 2010: Senior Lecturer at the Department of Practical Psychology at the Interregional Academy of Personnel Management.

  

Daria BILOTSKA, senior laboratory assistant

In 2021–2025, she studied at Kyiv National University of Technologies and Design under the educational and professional program “Vocational Education (Light Industry Product Technology)” and received a bachelor's degree with honors. In 2025, she enrolled in a master's program in the same specialty.

In her free time, she actively participates in scientific and practical conferences, as well as creative and scientific competitions.

 
Educational and Laboratory Facilities

The training area at the Department of Professional Education in Technologies and Design is 221 m2.

The number of rooms/total seats – 8/110.

Research Activities

Within the scientific theme “Psychological and Pedagogical Features of Training Future Specialists in Technologies and Design,” research focuses on the formation of professionally significant personality traits, the development of pedagogical skills, and the preparation of students for creative activity. Issues related to improving teaching methods for specialized disciplines, integrating psychological and pedagogical approaches with modern educational technologies, and forming motivation for professional growth and innovative thinking are being researched.

The Department's teachers conduct scientific research on the psychological mechanisms of students' professional adaptation, the formation of their aesthetic taste and design thinking, and the development of creative abilities and communicative culture. Particular attention is paid to creating conditions for the harmonious combination of theoretical training with practical activities, thereby ensuring the formation of competitive specialists in technologies and design.

Educational Programs

The purpose of the Department's activities is to create the necessary conditions for training bachelors in the specialties С4 Psychology, А5 Professional Education (by specialization), under the educational and professional programs “Psychology”, “Professional Education (Technology of Light Industry Products)”, as well as masters and postgraduate students of the specialty А5 Professional Education (by specializations) who will have deep knowledge, as well as basic professional competencies in psychology, professional education, design, and technology.

We focus on fostering international and intercultural dialogue with academic organizations of the EU countries through cooperation. The courses present positive examples of the European environmental policy and sustainable development practices from an interdisciplinary perspective. As a result, graduates develop greater awareness of the key aspects of EU environmental policy and learn to apply this knowledge in practical approaches to organizing sustainable education and production in Ukraine.

The Department offers various forms of training, including full-time and part-time study, distance learning, and short courses for college graduates.

Creative Activities and Achievements of Students

In 2022, the students of the specialty "Psychology" presented the startup "Psychological Support Center of KNUTD".

The All-Ukrainian Conference of Undergraduates and Young Scientists "Innovation in Education, Science and Business: Challenges and Opportunities" is a platform for the development of the startup movement at Kyiv National University of Technologies and Design, which is gaining momentum, motivating active innovative youth with project proposals for business to development, confirming the entrepreneurial format of the University, where the cooperation of the state, science, education and business is a synergistic quadrangle of knowledge of innovative development.

The announcement of the 25th International Competition for Young Designers “PECHERSKI KASHTANY” was a real joy and a long-awaited event for us. A year has passed since the previous competition — a year of challenges, changes, and profound rethinking. We have grown up. We have become stronger and more courageous. And now, with new experience and unshakable faith in victory, with inexhaustible hope in our hearts and love for Ukraine, we have decided to create again. Every day, with every fiber of our being, each of us feels the pain and tragedy of our people. But despite this — or perhaps because of it — we did not stop working. In our work, we tried to recreate what we sought support, comfort, and hope in. In creativity, we found a path to the light.

Over the course of two months — in long, emotional, and sometimes heated discussions — our collection was born. It became the result of co-creation, dialogue, inspiration, and the embodiment of an unbreakable spirit. After all, we put not only technical skills into every detail — we put our souls into it. And so today we can proudly present our joint work, created with love for life, beauty, and Ukraine, “Blossoming Against Chaos”.

The idea was not just to create a collection about flowers that do not decorate, but break through. To show that beauty is not only fragility, but also perseverance and strength of spirit. That is why these flowers, in our opinion, are a reflection of the surrounding background. In a world where a seam is a boundary, the blue rose becomes a new symbol. The deconstruction in the collection demonstrates the fracture, the loss of integrity of the urban body. Sloppy seams and open cuts are wounds in space, memory, and Ukrainian identity, through which voluminous flowers sprout, stubbornly blooming despite the chaos around them. It is a manifesto of hope and beauty that does not succumb to the system. The collection embodies the contrast between the cruel and the gentle, between technical negligence and natural form. Open seams, raw edges, and layering create visual noise in which a voluminous flower grows—not as a decoration, but as an affirmation of presence.

Unfortunately, our collection did not make it into the final show program. But participating in the “PECHERSKI KASHTANY” competition was an important event for us, bringing together, under the leadership of Inna KOSIAK, PhD, Associate Professor of the Department of POSTD; Natalia TOPCHII, educator-organizer and teacher of labor training and technologies at the Academic Lyceum No. 1 named after A.S. Malyshko; Daria BILOTSKA, 4th-year student of the EP “Professional Education (Light Industry Product Technologies)”.

Students undergo practical training in the laboratories and workshops of KNUTD. They also complete their pedagogical practice in the leading vocational education institutions of Kyiv: Kyiv Professional College of Art and Service Technologies and Kyiv Professional College of Technologies and Fashion Design.

Students undertake psychology internships in preschool institutions, (Preschool educational institution No. 205, Preschool education institution (nursery-kindergarten) No. 240, Preschool educational institution No. 731 "Kazka", Preschool educational institution No. 143, Preschool educational institution No. 632) consulting centres, coaching and training organisations, business enterprises, etc.

Students also have the opportunity to study at the military department, pursue studies, and complete the post-graduate course at KNUTD.

Opportunities for Students

After completing studies in the specialty "Professional Education (by specialization)”, graduates can:

  • apply the latest technologies in sewing products and modern design methods; design, technological, and regulatory documentation for their manufacture;
  • use methods of designing technological processes for manufacturing products to organize their production in mass production conditions;
  • effectively form a communication strategy, conduct business communication, and convey their thoughts and arguments clearly and unambiguously to specialists and the general public, conduct professional discussions;
  • use innovative achievements in light industry and pedagogy in practical work;
  • create an educational environment for vocational education that is conducive to learners and ensures the achievement of specified learning outcomes;
  • build and research models of processes in the field of vocational education;
  • provide consulting services in the field of vocational education.

After graduation, the student in the specialty "Psychology" will receive the qualification "Bachelor in Psychology" and will be able to solve the following tasks in the future:

  • understanding the basics of individual and group psychological counseling and psychotherapy;
  • ability to develop and implement a counseling plan taking into account the specifics of the request and individual characteristics of the client;
  • ability to develop and conduct training sessions;
  • experience in using psychodiagnostic tools and conducting diagnostics;
  • skills in career guidance, personnel selection, and career counseling;
  • quality knowledge of psychology and a foundation for master's degree studies;
  • research skills and competencies developed through study and practice;
  • ability to solve complex specialized tasks and practical problems in the field of psychology, involving the application of basic psychological theories and methods and characterized by complexity and uncertainty of conditions.

The relevance of the psychology profession today is determined by the needs of state and private institutions. As highly qualified professionals, psychologists are needed in many areas - from education to the defence industry. The choice depends on the desire to make a career and succeed in a specific direction.

 

Industries where students will be able to work after graduation:

Education system: psychologist of preschool institutions; school psychologist.

Organizations: recruitment consultant; management consultant; psychologist of the children's centre of creativity and leisure; consultant of the rescue service, customs, psychologist of the social and psychological service; psychologist; coach.

Military organizations: psychologist of the rehabilitation centre.

Law enforcement agencies: psychologists in juvenile correctional centers and other related institutions.

 

 

Students of the Department of Postgraduate Studies

Student Clubs

The following student scientific clubs work at the Department:

  • "School of Young Teacher-Scientist in Technology and Design" (led by Professor Alla Semenova);
  • "Positive Psychology" (led by Associate Professor Rymma Kyrychenko);
  • "Know Yourself" (led by Assistant Professor Alla Kolodiazhna);
  • "Project Activity in Vocational Education" (led by Associate Professor Inna Koiyak).
  • “Psychology of a Harmonious Personality” (led by Senior Lecturer Alona Tykhomyrova);
  • “Training and Coaching Technologies” (led by Associate Professor Maksym Moskalov).
Department’s Alumni

Most students of the Department are employed in the specialty obtained. For example:

Alina Lohvinenko

(a master of industrial training at Kyiv Higher Vocational School of Technology and Clothing Design)

Olena Babenchik

(a teacher of fundamental courses in design for international students at Salvador Dali Academy of Contemporary Arts)

Nadiya Fadeeva 

(a teacher of special courses of Kyiv Professional College of Applied Sciences)

Eugene Simchuk

(a master of industrial training at Kyiv Higher Vocational School of Technology and Clothing Design)

Tatiana Gots

(Master of industrial training of the VSP "Rivne College of Economics and Technology of the Ukrainian State University of Higher Education")

Yaroslav Barsuk and Tetiana Boiko

(a sales manager and chief designer of YAROSLAV Company)

Oleksandr Lutchenko
(a teacher at Kyiv Higher Vocational School of Sewing and Hairdressing)

Yuliia Moliarenko
(an assistant designer at Kateryna Shakhovska's fashion house)

Anton Dolinskyi
(a branch manager of the "Season" brand clothing shop)


Maryna Zakvatska
(a technologist
at Anna Bublik’s fashion house)

Mariana Zhuravska
(a teacher, a head of the "Skilled hands" club and private dress-making courses)

Yana Fedorets
(a designer of N.I.D. group LLC)

Serhii  Bilozertsev
(a fashion designer
at the “Atelier Viktor” design studio)

Yana  Bielova
(а tailoring repairs master at fashion house)

Anastasiia  Kharchenko
(Novopetrivske children's art school)

Iryna Romanyuk

(a eacher of special courses at the Communal Institution of Professional (Vocational and Technical) Education "Kyiv Vocational College of Art and Service Technologies")

Valentina Paukova

(Educational area MIDGARD, assistant manager of Fashion Hub)

Maria Popova

(a master of Industrial Training of the Communal Institution of Professional (Vocational and Technical) Education "Kyiv Vocational College of Art and Service Technologies")

Maria Nehoda

(a teacher of professional and theoretical training at the Communal Institution of Professional (Vocational and Technical) Education "Kyiv Vocational College of Technology and Fashion Design")
Training and Methodological Support

All courses offered by the Department are well-supported with training and methodological materials. Electronic lecture notes, methodological instructions for practical classes, course and diploma projects, and textbooks for all the courses taught by the Department, are available for students in the modular environment of the educational process.

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