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

Tetiana Derkach
Doctor of Education (habil.), Professor, Head of the Department

Address: 

Academic building 4,
rooms 320, 322
Mala Shyianovska (Nemyrovycha-Danchenka) Street, 2
Kyiv

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

e-mail: [email protected]

Provisions on the Department of Professional Education in Technologies and Design

Development Program

 

About Department
History of the Department

The origin of the Department of Professional Education in Technologies and Design of Kyiv National University of Technologies and Design dates back to 1948 when the Department of Foreign Languages of the University (at that time - the Kyiv Institute of Light Industry) set up a section of the Russian language for the training of foreign citizens. The Department of Russian Language was created from this section in 1971.

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.

Associate professor Olena E. Byednova was the Department's first head (1971-1972). Then, the Department was headed by Doris P. Ivanova (1973-1983) and PhD, associate professor Alexei F. Pinchuk (1983-2001). From 2001 to 2017, the Department was directed by PhD, associate professor Lyudmyla V. Zhiteniova (2001-2016) and Doctor of Education, associate professor Svitlana R. Babushko (2016-2017).

 Tetiana Derkach, Doctor of Education, Professor has headed the Department since 2017.

Teaching Staff

The teaching staff of the Department currently numbers six teachers. Among them, there are two Doctors of Science, professors; one Doctor of Science, associate professor; one PhD in Pedagogy, associate professor; two PhDs in Psychology, associate professors.

Tetiana M. Derkach, Doctor of Science in Education (habil.), PhD in Chemistry, Professor, Head of the Department

In 1987, she graduated with honours from the Faculty of Chemistry, Dnipropetrovsk State University. After completing the postgraduate course, she defended her PhD thesis in Chemistry in 2000; in 2003, she received the academic title of associate professor. From 1997 to 2016, she taught at the Faculty of Chemistry of the Dnipropetrovsk National University (DNU), headed the Department of General Chemistry and Food Technologies, as well as the Department of Physical and Inorganic Chemistry, and acted as a deputy dean for academic work. She also headed the Scientific-Methodical Centre of Distance Learning of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine at the DNU.

On completing the doctoral program at the Department of Pedagogy and Psychology of the Higher School at the Dragomanov National Pedagogical University (2010-2013), she defended her thesis in 2015 and received a doctorate in pedagogical sciences in the specialty 13.00.04 - Theory and Methodology of Professional Education.

In total, the teaching experience numbers more than 20 years. More than twenty subjects were taught to students in the Departments of Chemistry, Biology, Food Technology, Industrial Pharmacy, Professional Education (Textile Production Technology and Design) and Light Chemical Engineering in three various Universities.

  • The following pedagogical disciplines were lectured: Methods of Vocational Education; Methods of Teaching Chemistry, Creative Learning Technologies, Theory and History of Pedagogy; Modern Methods of Teaching; Higher Education and the Bologna Process, Methods of Teaching Professional Disciplines in Higher Education; Creative and Innovative Learning Technologies; Engineering and Pedagogical Creativity.
  • Experience in computer-aided teaching: Introduction to Computer Chemistry; Learning Software; Methods of Teaching Computer Science at Schools; Information Technology in Teaching Chemistry.

Tetiana Derkach constantly improves her qualifications. In recent years, she has completed the following international internships: Advanced Training Program «International Education in the Context of Sustainable Development – Best Practices and Global Trends », March 22 –May 05, 2021, Kyiv College at Q.U.T., China; Training in «Development and Implementation of Partnership-based Governance Mechanisms in Vocational Teacher Training: Concepts of Effective Functioning», March 11 – 12, 2021, Erasmus+ Project PAGOSTE; Advanced Training Program «English Language Projects and Communications in Higher Education», October 28 - December 13, 2020, Kyiv College at Q.U.T., China; Internship and Advanced Training Program «Organisation of Didactic Process, Educational Programs, Innovative Technologies and Scientific Work in Wyzsza Szkola Biznesu-National-Louis University», June 11 – 29, 2018, Nowy Sacz, Poland.

Since 2016, she has been working at KNUTD.

T. Derkach is the author (co-author) of more than 240 scientific works, including three monographs, ten textbooks (four of them have received authorised stamps of the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine and two were published in English), 18 teaching and methodological works, and five patents for the invention.

Member of the editorial board of the following magazines:

Technologies and design: electronic. of science profession. view. Kyiv. national University of Technology and Design. http://e-journal.knutd.edu.ua/redkolegiya/

"Scientific notes of the Vinnytsia State Pedagogical University named after Mykhailo Kotsiubynskyi. Series: Theory and teaching methods of natural sciences"

International Educational Research https://j.ideasspread.org/index.php/ier/about/contact.

Member of the Expert Council of the National Agency for Higher Education Quality Assurance in the field of knowledge 01 "Pedagogy."

A lot of invited lectures were given at the universities and research laboratories. Organizing committees for a few national/international conferences in chemistry and education.

She lectures in "Methodology of professional education", "Creative technologies of teaching", and "Theory and history of pedagogy". Supervises students' coursework and diploma works, as well as the pedagogical practice of graduate students.

    

Ivan Ya. Dzyra, Doctor of Science in History (habil.), PhD in Philology, Professor

In 1990, he graduated with honours from the Philological Faculty of Kyiv State University named after T.G. Shevchenko (now Taras Shevchenko Kyiv National University). Since 1990, he has been teaching at Kyiv National University of Technologies and Design as a teacher (1990-1998), associate professor (1998-2008), and professor (since 2008). I. Dzyra published more than 130 scientific and methodological works, in particular, the monograph "The Cossack Annals of the thirties-eighties of the ХYIII century: Sources and Historiographical Aspects." He is engaged in research on the historical onomastics of the Ukrainian chronicles of the 17th-18th centuries and study of the works of P. Kulish, M. Kostomarov and P. Biletsky-Nosenko. He lectures in "Business Ukrainian", "Ukrainian as a foreign language", "The Ukrainian language for academic purposes".

 

Maria M. Bilianska, Doctor of Science in Education (habil.), associate professor (part-time employee)

In 1994, she graduated with honours from the Ukrainian State Pedagogical University named after M.P. Dragomanov. After graduating from postgraduate studies, she defended her PhD thesis in 2004 and received the academic title of associate professor in 2008.

From 2003 to 2022, she has taught at the Dragomanov National Pedagogical University as an assistant (2003-2006) and associate professor (since 2006).

After completing a doctoral program at the Institute of Higher Education of the National Academy of Pedagogical Sciences of Ukraine, she defended her thesis in 2018. She received a Doctor of Science in Education in the specialty 13.00.04 - Theory and Methodology of Professional Education. At KNUTD, she has been working since 2018.

M. Bilianska published over 130 scientific and methodological works, including three monographs, 40 scientific articles in Ukrainian journals, seven international publications, seven educational programs for the training of future teachers of biology and ecologists, one for general secondary education institutions, 14 textbooks for students, three for teachers, and one for students of secondary education institutions (two of them are approved bym the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine).

She lecturers in "Anatomy and physiology of the nervous system", "Fundamentals of pedagogy and psychology", "Theory and methodology of educational work", "History of pedagogy", and "Psychology".

In 2018, she advanced her qualifications under the educational program "Innovation in teaching Ukrainian as a foreign language" at Drahomanov State University.

She completed the international internship "Fundraising and organization of project activities in educational institutions: European experience" (Poland - Ukraine, February 12 - March 20, 2022).

Since 2021, Maria M. Bilianska has been a member of the editorial board of the collection of the State University named A.S. Makarenko scientific works named "Actual issues of science and mathematics education."

Member of the expert subject (industry) commission of the Ministry of Education and Culture of Ukraine on biology and ecology (Order of the Ministry of Education and Culture of Ukraine No. 95, dated January 22, 2021).

In 2010, she was awarded the M.P. Drahomanov medal.

  

Olha M. Vnukova, PhD in Pedagogy, associate professor

In 1990, she graduated from the History Department of Kyiv State University named after T.G. Shevchenko. In 2004, she received a scientific degree of a candidate of pedagogical sciences in the specialty 13.00.04 - Theory and Methodology of Professional Education. Since 2006, she has held the position of associate professor at KNUTD. She lecturers in "Professional pedagogy", "Theory and methodology of educational work", "Theory and history of pedagogy", and "Academic writing and integrity". She teaches pedagogical skills to students of the second and third levels of higher education and scientific and pedagogical workers, in particular, on advanced training courses. Dr. Vnukova supervises coursework and diploma work of students and pedagogical practice. She is the guarantor of the educational and professional program "Professional Education (Technology of Light Industry Products)" and the curator of student groups. She is the author (co-author) of many scientific and methodological works, including the textbook "Methodological foundations of professional education".

  

Rymma V. 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. Dragomanov, 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, Dr 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 an 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". Dr. Kyrychenko lecturers in "General Psychology", "Psychology", "Psychology of Professional Activities", "Communicative Processes in Pedagogical Activities", and "Psychology of Self-Knowledge and Self-Development".

  

Alla V. Kolodiazhna, PhD in Psychology, associate professor

Dr. Kolodiazhna graduated from the Ukrainian State Pedagogical University named after M.P. Dragomanov (with the qualification of a teacher of 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 lecturers in "History of Psychology", "Practicum of General Psychology", "Imageology and the Basics of Engineering and Pedagogical Creativity", "Psychological Technologies of Image Making", and "Ukrainian as a Foreign Language".

  

Valentina T. Paukova, senior laboratory assistant

In 2021, she graduated from Kyiv National University of Technologies and Design. She received a bachelor's degree in the specialty 015.36 Professional Education (Technology of light industry products). She is the author (co-author) of seven scientific publications. She has been working at KNUTD since 2021.
Educational and Laboratory Facilities

The training area at the Department of Professional Education in Technologies and Design is 315,3 m2.

The number of rooms/total seats – 13/165.

Research

The scientific topic of the Department is called "Innovative technologies and modern methods of training of professionals of professional education". The staff study topical problems of the role of information technologies in teaching professional courses, using innovative technologies of textile waste recycling, future teachers' creativity development. 

The teachers of the Department carry out research in the field of psychology in the following areas: formation of psychological culture and professional image of the individual; socio-psychological training - art therapy, rehabilitation psychology; psychological conditions for the development of transprofessional competencies of the individual, etc.

In recent years, the results of the research and teaching activities have been reflected in 6 monographs, 22 textbooks (4 of them were approved the under the Ministry of Education and Science stamp), and more than 200 articles in professional and scientific publications. Students and teachers regularly participate in international and all-Ukrainian conferences, including in Shanghai (P.R.C.), Bratislava (Slovakia), Granada (Spain), Nowy Sacz (Poland), Dresden (Germany), Saint-Valerie (France), and more. The Department pays great importance to developing creative thinking, forming independent scientific research skills, and student search. The teachers of the Department are at the forefront of modern trends in higher education.

 

Study Programs

The purpose of the Department's activities is to provide the necessary conditions for the organization of the process of training bachelors in the specialties 053 Psychology, 015 "Professional Education (Design)", 015.36 "Professional Education (Technology of Light Industry Products)" according to the educational and professional programs "Psychology", "Professional Education (Design)", "Professional Education (Technology of light industry products)", as well as masters and postgraduate students of the specialty 015 "Professional education (by specializations)" who will have deep knowledge, as well as basic professional competencies in the field of psychology, professional education, design and technology.

We focus on the development of an international and intercultural dialogue with academic organizations of EU countries through cooperation. The courses highlighted positive examples of European environmental policy and sustainable development practices from an interdisciplinary perspective. The main results of this are raising graduates' awareness regarding the critical aspects of the effectiveness of the E.U.'s environmental policy, as well as the implementation of this knowledge in practical approaches to the organization of sustainable education and sustainable production in Ukraine beyond.

The following forms of learning are available: full-time and part-time education; distance learning; full-time and part-time courses: a shortened course for college graduates.

Creative Activities and Achievements of Students

Our students always take part in the International Сontest "Pecherski Kashtany". Anton Dolinsky, with the "Readiness for Peace" collection won the contest in prêt-à-porter nomination. In 2017, Anastasia Kalinina with the collection "Do not Break Me" won third place. The talented student, Anastasia Kalinina, three times won 1st place in the All-Ukrainian Competition of Young Designers of One Image and Decor "Constellation Chestnut" (nominations "New Year's Ball" and "Beyond the Borders" etc.). Anastasia Shpetna received 1st place in the "New Year Greetings Card" nomination of the XV All-Ukrainian Competition of Young Designers "Constellation

Chestnut". Daria Koval took second place in the nomination "NEW YEAR-CHRISTMAS DECOR" of the XIX International Competition of One Image and New Year-Christmas Decor "Constellation Chestnut". Victoria Vysotska took part in the Kyiv Premium Brand Fashion Awards 2021 and won the Top Fashion Experts nomination. Olena Ivanova and Tetyana Cherchenko reached the final in the student creative competition "Buyer - FRIEND Eco. FRIENDS Fashion. 

Tamara Ustenko presented KNUTD at the Big Idea Challenge International Video Pitch Contest. Participation in this competition was made possible by the University's victory in the British Council's Creative Spark project: a business support program for the education system. The Recycled Textile Waste Designs project won the People Choice category by international online voting. At Oxford University, a future designer was awarded and underwent a series of intensive training in entrepreneurship, management, and marketing. Our students took part in the All-Ukrainian Competition of Student Research Papers in the specialty "Theory and Methodology of Vocational Training" (Kharkiv). Roksolana Lutsenko, Oksana Artiukh, and Svitlana Muliar became the winners of the competition.

Tamara continued her studies at the International Academy for Sustainable Development I.S.A. (Hamburg, Germany). She became one of 12 fellows selected from 3,100 candidates worldwide. Tamara's project aims to use innovative technologies for recycling textile waste. She plans to open an eco-social studio that will create designer clothes from the remains of fabrics and biomaterials.

Our students took part in the All-Ukrainian Competition of Student Research  Papers in the specialty "Theory and Methodology of Vocational Training", Psychology, and in the all-Ukrainian conferences of young scientists and students "Scientific Developments of Youth at the Present Stage.

Students undergo practical training in laboratories and workshops of KNUTD. Students take their pedagogical practice in the leading vocational education institutions of Kyiv: Kyiv Higher Professional School of Sewing and Hairdressing Arts and Kyiv Higher Professional School of Technology and Clothing Design. Students take practical psychology internships in educational institutions, consulting centres, coaching and training organisations, business enterprises, etc.

Students can also study at the Military Department and enter the postgraduate course of KNUTD.

Opportunities for Students

After graduation, the student of "Professional Education (Technology of Light Industry)" specialty will receive the "Bachelor of Professional Education" qualification and will be able to hold the following positions:

  • a teacher of general technical courses;
  • a teacher of psycho-pedagogical subjects (psychology of labour, professional pedagogy, vocational training methodology, etc.);
  • a teacher of special courses in the sphere of sewing (sewing technology, materials science, designing clothes, designing clothing industry enterprises, technological equipment of clothing industry);
  • a methodologist;
  • a vocational training teacher;
  • an assistant;
  • head of a school laboratory;
  • a safety measures engineer in training workshops;
  • a training manager;
  • an industrial engineer;
  • a pre-production engineer;
  • a rate-setter engineer;
  • a senior foreperson;
  • an engineer-designer;
  • head of the production department;
  • director;
  • chief of technical Department;
  • chief technologist.

 

Bachelors in Professional Education are able to:

  • teach at higher and secondary educational institutions;
  • work at state, commercial and joint enterprises in the manufacture of modern clothing;
  • set up own business on the production and repair of garments.

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:

  • Application of theoretical and applied knowledge for conducting psychological research
  • Provision of psychological assistance
  • Finding out the causes of conflict situations, taking into account gender, age, and individual differences
  • Using methods and methods of self-control and self-improvement
  • Implementation of psychological assistance methods: training, art therapy
  • Ability to develop personal abilities
  • Optimisation of cognitive activity (development of attention, memory, thinking)
  • Psychological correction of personal development
  • Psychotherapeutic work
  • Educational work; psychological prevention

The relevance of the psychology profession today is determined by the needs of state and private institutions. As highly qualified specialists, 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; coach; psychologist; coach.

Military organizations: psychologist of the rehabilitation centre.

Law enforcement agencies: psychologists of the correctional centre for juveniles, etc.

The first-year students and graduates of the Department of Professional Education in Technologies and Design, 2021 

Student Clubs

The following student scientific societies work at the Department:

  • "Digital technologies in professional education" (professor Tetiana Derkach);
  • "Education for sustainable development" (assistant professor Maria Bilyanska);
  • "Positive psychology" (assistant professor Rymma Kyrychenko);
  • "Pedagogical search" (assistant professor Olha Vnukova);
  • "Ukrainian language in professional communication" (professor Ivan Dzyra);
  • "Know yourself" (assistant professor Alla Kolodyazhna).
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)

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)
The list of courses taught at of the Department:

First (bachelor’s) level of higher education

1

Anatomy and physiology of the nervous system

 

2

Business Ukrainian language

https://knutd.edu.ua/files/ekts/od/DYM_2021_bak.pdf

3

General psychology

 

4

Imageology and the basics of engineering and pedagogical creativity

https://knutd.edu.ua/files/ekts/od/TIP_2021_015_bak.pdf

5

History of psychology

 

6

Communicative processes in pedagogical activity

https://knutd.edu.ua/files/ekts/od/KPPD_2021_015_bak.pdf

7

Creative learning technologies

https://knutd.edu.ua/files/ekts/od/KITN_2021_015_bak.pdf

8

Methodology of professional training

https://knutd.edu.ua/files/ekts/od/MPN_2021_015_bak.pdf

9

Professional pedagogy

https://knutd.edu.ua/files/ekts/od/PP_2021_015_bak.pdf

10

Psychology

https://knutd.edu.ua/files/ekts/od/P_2021_015_bak.pdf

11

Psychology of professional activity

https://knutd.edu.ua/files/ekts/od/PPD_2021_015_bak.pdf

12

Human psychophysiology with the basics of genetics

 

13

Rhetoric and art of presentation

https://knutd.edu.ua/files/ekts/od/RMP_2021_015_bak.pdf

14

Theory and history of pedagogy

https://knutd.edu.ua/files/ekts/od/TIP_2021_015_bak.pdf

15

Theory and method of educational work

https://knutd.edu.ua/files/ekts/od/TMVR_2021_015_bak.pdf

16

Ukrainian as a foreign language

The second (master's) level of higher education

17

Pedagogical skill in professional education

https://knutd.edu.ua/files/ekts/od/PMPO_2021_015_mg.pdf

18

Psychological technologies of image making

https://knutd.edu.ua/files/ekts/od/PTI_2021_015_mg.pdf 

19

Rhetoric in scientific and pedagogical activity

 

The third (educational and scientific) level of higher education

20

Ukrainian language for academic purposes

 

21

Theory and methodology of professional education

 

22

Pedagogical skills in higher education

 

23

Innovations and project activities in professional education

 

24

Pedagogical practice

 

 

Free choice courses

  • Academic writing and integrity
  • Pedagogy and psychology of higher school
  • Psychology of self-knowledge and self-development
Training and Methodological Support

All courses of the Department are adequately provided with training and methodological literature. Electronic lecture notes, methodical instructions for practical classes, course and diploma works, and textbooks for all disciplines, taught by the Department, are available for students in the modular environment of the educational process.

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