Provision of psychological safety of younger pupils of cadet classes

The author's approach to ensuring psychological safety in the educational process is presented. Cadet classes place increased demands on the capabilities and resources of the child, therefore the task of accompanying these educational programs from the point of view of ensuring the psychological safety of children is relevant. The study aims to test the assumption that the program maintains the state of psychological safety, implements a risk-resource approach and aims to update and form components of psychological safety (satisfaction, safety, reference, subjective well-being of the child in the Cadet educational environment, activity) will be effective when accompanied cadet educational programs. Testing of the developed program was carried out with students of cadet classes (53 people in the experimental and 26 in the control group). Based on the theoretical analysis, the components and criteria for the psychological safety of the younger student have been determined. The survey methods (questioning), testing, projective method examined children, parents and teachers in cadet classes to identify the initial and final level of psychological safety of younger students. For statistical processing, cluster and discriminant analysis, Chisquare for contingency tables, criterion of G. signs are used. The article describes the features of the program aimed at forming and maintaining the psychological safety of younger schoolchildren, students of cadet classes. Its effectiveness was determined by all selected criteria with a significance level of no more than p <0.005. The ideas of the formative program can be used in the practice of psychological work in schools, as well as for further research on the psychological safety of children in the educational environments of schools of various