Simonenko, Victor Dmitrievich

Born on February 23, 1937 in the city of Kondopoga (Republic of Karelia). After graduating from a seven-year school, he studied with honors in the college of agricultural mechanization. Then in 1965 he graduated, successfully graduating from the Kharkov Polytechnic Institute.

From 1956 to 1969 he worked as a master of industrial training, a teacher; Deputy Director for educational and production work; director of rural vocational schools; Director of the Glukhovsky College of Water Reclamation and Electrification of Agriculture.

It was during this period that his remarkable organizational and creative abilities began to manifest. The educational institutions led by the young engineer were regular participants in VDNH of the USSR and VDNH of Ukraine.

Since the beginning of his career, V. D. Simonenko has been actively developing new equipment and technologies. Participating in harvesting in Kazakhstan, he made a rationalization proposal to improve the harvester header of the Stalinets-6 combine, which allowed to reduce grain losses to two centners per hectare, for which he was awarded the Komsomol’s highest award with the Golden Ear symbol of honor. Then Viktor Dmitrievich developed a set of machines for the tape planting of potatoes. And in 1972, according to his technology, for the first time in the USSR, sugar beet was harvested without the cost of manual labor on an area of ​​13 thousand hectares, for which V. D. Simonenko was awarded the Order of the Red Banner of Labor.

Viktor Dmitrievich is the author of two inventions, including the co-author of an automatic machine for processing burrs and hardening the surface layer of gears and cast sprockets, which allowed to increase labor productivity in these operations by 10 times. The young engineer devoted a lot of time and effort to developing original instruments for professional psychodiagnostics.

Since 1965, he began to actively engage in research work, developing problems of the quality of education for students of vocational schools. In published works, methodological issues of labor training of students of vocational schools are considered. In the 1970s, V. D. Simonenko published the teaching aids “Tractor Driving Teaching Methods” at the Higher School Publishing House; "Driving tractors and combines", "Methods of teaching students to work on machine-tractor units." These works have been translated into the languages ​​of other states (Ukrainian, Lithuanian, Kyrgyz).

From 1976 to 1987, he worked as the head of the department of methods of labor training and drawing, dean of the faculty of general technical disciplines, and then vice-rector for academic affairs at the Glukhovsky Pedagogical Institute named after S.N. Sergeyev-Tsensky. Throughout his career, V. D. Simonenko pays attention to the study of career guidance problems. In the 1980s, under his authorship, a number of major career guidance works appeared: a textbook for pedagogical universities, a monograph, etc. He considers school students' vocational guidance as one of the most important components of labor preparation of students and their polytechnic education. In 1983 he received a second higher education, graduating from the Krivoy Rog Pedagogical Institute .

In 1978, V. D. Simonenko defended his thesis for the degree of candidate of economic sciences, and in 1988 he was awarded the degree of doctor of pedagogical sciences.

Since 1988, the family of V. D. Simonenko has moved to Bryansk, where he begins to work at the Industrial and Pedagogical Faculty at the Bryansk State Pedagogical Institute.

For many years, Professor V. D. Simonenko headed the largest faculty of technology, economics and psychology at the Bryansk State University named after academician I. G. Petrovsky and the Department of Technology and Entrepreneurship. Since 2002, he was director of the Socio-Economic Institute, dean of the Faculty of Finance and Economics of Bryansk State University named after Academician I. G. Petrovsky.

Over the years of fruitful work at the university, he proved himself as a talented leader and creatively working scientist-teacher. In 1994, V. D. Simonenko was elected a corresponding member of RAO.

V. D. Simonenko stood at the origins of the creation of the first dissertation council for the defense of candidate dissertations at the Bryansk State University. Acad. I. G. Petrovsky. From 1991 to 2005, Viktor Dmitrievich was the permanent chairman of the dissertation council on pedagogical sciences. He personally trained more than 128 candidates and 20 doctors of pedagogical sciences.

Since 1992, the scientific team led by V. D. Simonenko has been actively conducting research on the introduction of technological education in Russian schools. Under the stamp of the Ministry of Education, textbooks on technology for students of general educational institutions have been issued (edited by V. D. Simonenko). A significant number of textbooks and methodological recommendations have been published, dissertations on the problems of technological education are protected.

In 1992, V. D. Simonenko led the research team to develop a new educational field, “Technology,” which made it possible to retain teachers and the educational material base of labor training for schools. The inclusion in the basic curriculum of the educational field "Technology" the author considered the process logical.

In 1995-2005 and to the present (2015), under his editorship, books on technology for grades 1-11 of comprehensive schools were published. He was the first in Russia to publish a textbook for students of the 10th-11th grades “Fundamentals of Technological Culture”, Fundamentals of Entrepreneurship, Fundamentals of Consumer Culture. Simonenko V. D. was engaged in the study of the effectiveness of introducing the project method into the process of technological education, which is reflected in the teaching aids for teachers. In 1996, under his leadership, textbooks on consumer protection were prepared for students in grades 5-11 who took 1st place at the All-Russian Competition.

In total, he published more than 600 works, including more than 40 textbooks, monographs, teaching aids. His teachers are academicians P. R. Atutov, S. Ya. Batyshev, and V. A. Polyakov. He forms the scientific support of the educational field “Technology” (concept, content, forms and methods) on a broad polytechnical basis and believes that it is technology that helps to deepen the polytechnic education of students.

The result of his many years of research in the field of economics was the defense of the second doctoral dissertation and the award in 2002 of the degree of Doctor of Economics. In the same year, the professor headed the Faculty of Finance and Economics, postgraduate studies in the specialty 08.00.05 - Economics and Management of the National Economy were opened, in 2004 he headed the dissertation council on economic sciences at BSU.

V. D. Simonenko believed that his very first and most important title was a teacher. This is not only a profession, but also a mission in life. Destiny giving rise to difficult decisions and well-deserved victories.

High professionalism, pedagogical tact, creative activity, organizational skills, tolerance - these are the qualities that Viktor Dmitrievich possessed. As a scientist, he was distinguished: erudition, an extraordinary breadth of interests, an amazing ability to see and accurately formulate the most urgent scientific problems.

According to all the people around V.D. Simonenko, he was the owner of the rarest, most valuable phenomenon - a combination of exactingness, rigor and at the same time goodwill, a source of joyful mood, optimism and creative enthusiasm.

• Driving tractors and combines. - M., 1980;
• Methods of teaching students of vocational schools to work on machine-tractor units. - M., 1982;
• Professions of agricultural production. - Kiev, 1984; Socially useful productive labor. - M., 1990;
• Vocational guidance of students in the lessons of labor training. - M., 1985;
• Fundamentals of Entrepreneurship: A textbook for students in grade X. - M .: Vita-press, 2005;
• Technology: Primary and basic general education programs. - M., 1995-2015,
• Technology: Textbooks for students in grades I — XI. - M., 1995—2015;
• Professional orientation of schoolchildren. - M., 1985;
• Fundamentals of technical creativity. - M., 1987.,
• Technique for teaching technology. - M .: Ventana-Graf, 2005;
• Methodology of pre-profile technological preparation - M .: Ventana-Graf, 2005;
• The basics of consumer culture - M .: Vita-press, 2005;
• General and professional pedagogy / Textbook for students of pedagogical universities / Ed. V. D. Simonenko. - M.: Ventana-Graf, 2006.
• Atutov P. P., Khotuntsev Yu. L., Simonenko V. D., et al. The concept of forming a technological culture of youth in a comprehensive school. “School and Production”, 1999, No. 1,5-12.

• medal “For Labor Valor” (1970);
• Order of the Red Banner of Labor (1972);
• medal to the order "For Merit to the Fatherland", II degree (1997);
• medal of K. D. Ushinsky ;
• Honorary Worker of Higher Professional Education of the Russian Federation (2000);
• medal to the order "For Merit to the Fatherland" of the I degree (2003).

• Encyclopedia of vocational education: in 3 volumes / Ed. S. Ya. Batysheva. - M .: APO. 1999. - 488 p., T. 3. - p. 96-98.

• Victor Dmitrievich Simonenko