Pedagogical engineering: methodological outline of the project of the Minin University

Introduction. The design of the "School of Pedagogical Engineering and Engineering Thinking" at Minin University in partnership with high-tech enterprises of the Nizhny Novgorod region presents a methodological outline (outline of the "necessary future" of the university), showing the frame of a new subject of scientific and educational interaction between pedagogical education and the scientific and technological sphere of the region in the format of a unique educational and technological platform for the formation of scientific and technological elite of the Russian Federation in the digital economy. Aim: the purpose of the article is to present and scientifically substantiate the conceptual idea of the project about the creation of new organizational and managerial mechanisms of interaction between the sphere of continuous pedagogical advanced education and high-tech production, aimed at the formation of an engineering type of thinking and the relationship of education, science and production within the framework of spatial co[1]organization and scientific and educational collaboration of participants in educational relations in Technograd format, combining practice-oriented science and science-oriented practice of continuous pedagogical education, which makes the educational reality itself - pedagogical, organizational, managerial, scientific and technological as the subject of its research, analysis and transformation. Materials and Methods. The basis of scientific research and scientific and methodological support of the project of the school of pedagogical engineering and engineering thinking, created and implemented in the conditions of management of the development of the university of pedagogical profile is project methodology and philosophy (futurodesign), as well as project management experiment. Results. The project "School of Pedagogical Engineering and Engineering Thinking" has been developed, the ontology of which reveals the forms and principles of "unity" and unification of the educational and scientific-technological spheres of human existence and human activity. A new methodology has been designed to train a STEAM teacher with competencies in the implementation of interdisciplinary and meta–subject approaches, the use of technological solutions in the process of cognition and transformation of the world. The scientific novelty of the research results is characterized by the application of a transdisciplinary approach and the principles of project[1]network, scientific and educational collaboration to the creation of a new subject area of pedagogical science and educational practice "Pedagogical Engineering", providing an effective combination of fundamental and practice-oriented research, psychological and pedagogical knowledge and scientific and technological means of high-tech industries aimed at humanization educational processes and the pedagogy of society as a whole. Discussion and Conclusions. The practical significance of the research is determined by the fact that the developed project creates mechanisms and conditions for the network co-organization of organizational, managerial, scientific and methodological resources for the transformation of pedagogical education in the region, the implementation of the interdisciplinary direction of humanitarian and technological pedagogical education for the training of teachers - professionals of a new generation, and also represents the organizational and managerial mechanism of horizontal interaction of higher education and general education organizations with high-tech companies on the principle of "education – science – production – practice".