Project of Health-Caring Educational School Environment for Children with Diabetes Mellitus

Abstract

The aim of the study is to design the health-caring educational environment of a modern
school for the education of children with diabetes. The leading methods to study this
problem are perennial observations and the questionnaires, which revealed the health of
children, their success in studying and their psychological state; sociological research,
medical research of diabetes mellitus problems, theoretical analysis and generalization of
scientific and pedagogical sources on the problem of health caring of students with
diabetes mellitus; modeling. The study involved 20 children (aged 10 to 14) with diabetes
in comprehensive schools in the Republic of Tatarstan. The main results of the research
include identifying the experience of designing school health-caring environment for
children with diabetes mellitus in different countries: identifying conceptual basis of the
educational environment of the Russian comprehensive school, focused on the health
caring of students with diabetes; designing a content-functional model of the healthcaring educational school environment for children with diabetes mellitus. The
significance of the obtained results consists in the proposed structural and functional
model of the educational health-caring school environment as a pedagogical system
including the value-objective, content-informational, activity-practical and outcomeevaluative components. The worked out recommendations focus on the individualized
and multidisciplinary approaches in the education of children with diabetes that will
prevent the development and progression of diabetes mellitus; on the creation of the
health-caring environment through the definition and actualization of health-caring
functions, modernization of the content and technologies of the educational school
process