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Ivan Ryabukha

Kherson State Agricultural University

Social Competency of a Lyceum Student: Notion Investigation

 

The study of foreign and home literature and instructional-normative documents of the secondary education system showed that the social competency of lyceums’ students simultaneously came forward as base description of educational process result and difficult structural formation of a personality, there are several approaches to forming of that. Cognitive approach means acquisition of knowledge about sociocultural norms, necessary to the students of lyceum for successful social co-operation, and knowledge that will allow them to support own social status and will provide integration in society. Behavioural approach predetermines the capture by students social roles and formal rules of co-operating with surroundings, id est forming of skills alongside with the use of the purchased knowledge, accumulation of life experience. Humanistic approach focuses the process of social competency development of personality on their capabilities and internalss, and also factors that explain social behaviour and vital philosophy of studuying young people.

Grounding on the results of the scientific research, lyceum student’s social competency is defined as the integral property of a personality, represented by the system of personality lines and internalss, capabilities and socially meaningful abilities, that provides accordance of an individual to their social group and determines the achievement of successful realization of own and publicly meaningful aims (selected independently and determined from outside) in heterogeneous society.

The analysis of authorial approaches and dictionary determinations allowed to establish, that the lyceum student’s social competency (SSC) is related to life, communicative, socialpsychological, sociocultural and socialprofessional competencies and includes the variety of key competencies of a personality. Grounding on analysis of scientific revisions of home and foreign authors the matrix of structure of social competence of student of lyceum was built; the set components of this much-stratified concept are fixed in basis of authorial richly-structural submodel of SSC, that combines cognitive, personal and behavioural constituents, each of that is presented by the list of personal parameters. For development of methodology of determination of the state of formed of SSC evaluation parameters are grouped in such three blocks: diagnostically-evaluation, richly-judicial and effectively-correcting.

In accordance with the worked out submodel the level of social competence formation is considered to be the functional state that is characterized by the complex of concrete values of structural parameters of SSC, and its development is an inconvertible, appropriate, progressive change that results in the achievement of its quality new level. Taking into account it, development of lyceum student’s social competency is defined as the directed process of change of its parameters due to class and out-of-class activity in the specially created organizationally-didactics, social and psychological and pedagogical conditions.

During the research the circle of contradictions of the outer and internal world of personality was defined as a source of development of social competency; outlined organizationally-pedagogical conditions - as the circumstances of development; the gear of development was chosen motivation of students’ achievements as measure of accordance between their requirements and possibilities, expectations and real achievements in such spheres: educational-communicative, publicly-useful and personality-role-play. It was set that development of lyceum students’ social competency is determined by conditions of their social surroundings and conditioned by the requirement of teenagers in adequate integration into society, self-determination and self-affirmation, achievement of emotional prosperity. Taking into account it conceptual ground and planes of SSC development were selected - cognitive (cognition of itself and world), spiritual (forming of values and motivations) and creative (an exposure of work in the different types of activity).

The study of theoretical revisions and pedagogical experience gave possibility to expose the essence of mega-, macro-, metho- and micr factors of SSC development, to find out the specific of their influence in the conditions of lyceum of boarding type. The special place is given to socialpedagogical, intellectually and emotionally saturated environment of lyceum as social reality that is characterized by the complex of organizationally-didactics conditions and distinguished by a closeness and intensity of co-operation of subjects of educational process in the «field of collective activity» and co-operation of lyceum students with surroundings in the «field of individual development».

Grounding on the analysis of literature of research pedagogical guidance of SSC development was defined as algorythmised actions of concrete subjects of educational process, essence of that is provision of optimal conditions of vital functions and social activity of students and structural co-operating with social surroundings. The effective, system, planned use of resources (technological in particular), forms, methods and facilities was selected to be the primary purpose of pedagogical guidance for the achievement of maximally possible result. As main principle of guidance the integrative concordance of activity of subjects of educational process - determination at every age level of lyceum students’ social competence development and finding of optimal ways and mechanisms of its further development.