<p><em>The given paper is concerned with holistic approach to social pedagogy in Russia. Itcovers the key trends in development of social pedagogy over the last 25 years. The main objective of the given paper is to give coverage to the researches that make significant contribution to development of social pedagogy in Russia. The author of the article highlights the key directions ofthe researches in the domain of social pedagogy,such as providing scientific grounds forthe new direction of pedagogical knowledge, creation and development of schools of thought in social pedagogy, specific features of socialization of a growing personality, content and techniques of professional social education</em>.<em>The author states that only studying positive experience is the way to solving the problems that modern social pedagogy faces nowadays.</em></p>

<p><em>The article is devoted to the problem of professional training of social teachers in the context of modern society. The authors prove the urgent need to change the content of training programs for social teachers, make alterations into methodological support and mechanisms of academic process organization. The authors share experience of social work aimed at prevention and correction of deviant behavior of children and teenagers of some regions of Russia. The paper covers the main approaches to organization of professional training of social teachers. The authors offer conceptual model of social-teachers preparation that enables to counter the challenges that Russian educational system has to face nowadays. </em></p><p> </p>

The given article provides theoretical analysis of the process of modern Russian teenagers’ social competence development as part of Russian presidential initiative “Our new school”. The author gives a detailed account of the key components of the process of teenagers’ social evolution within which social competence is developed. The essence of psychological-pedagogical approach to the given process is revealed. The author analyses approaches by scientists-pedagogues to the issue under study, in particular, academicmethodical support of the given process. The conditions necessary for efficient teenagers’ social competence development are dwelt on.