Irina V. Dubrovina

Background. The article highlights a relevant problem of upbringing students within modern school education as considered in the context of the role of interaction between psychology and pedagogy. The education system needs scientific psychological knowledge, since educational standards pay much attention to the issues of mental development of a growing person.

Objective. The article attempts to return the original meaning to the phenomenon of “psychological service in the education system”, which is currently understood in different ways.

Methods. The article uses theoretical methods of analysis and synthesis of scientific literature on the interaction between psychology and pedagogy in the context of students’ education

Results. Psychological service should be understood as psychological support for the continuous education system, as an integral phenomenon representing the unity of scientific, applied and practical aspects. This is achieved on the basis of scientific and practice-oriented cooperation between psychology and pedagogy, educational psychologists and teachers.

Conclusions. The activity of an educational psychologist is key in the psychological support of the continuous education system, since it is the educational psychologist who constructs the social situation of children's cultural development in cooperation with teachers (L.S. Vygotsky). The stated approach means increasing the requirements both to the level of professional training of educational psychologists and to the level of their personal and cultural development.