Individual Characteristics of Students in the Course of Professional Development (as Exemplified by the Ulyanovsk Region of Russia)

The importance of this study is determined by the fact that fundamental social and economic changes in contemporary Russian society have led to imbalance in the common system of values that forms the basis of a teacher's comprehensive world outlook. Under conditions of a constant development and change of the value priorities' nature the problem of forming a stable system of future specialists' value orientations that provides the foundation for cross-cultural communication in a democratic society is of current interest. In this connection, this article is directed towards the study of the development of university students' multicultural value orientations as a pressing problem of contemporary professional education. The leading approach to scientific research aimed at this specific problem is the theoretical and methodological approach that allows us to comprehensively consider the problem of developing future specialists' multicultural value orientations in a context of a higher education institution. It has been substantiated in the article that a key moment in the activity directed towards the development of students' multicultural value orientations is the identification of objectively existing difficulties in a value perception of another culture and transference to the category of goals, the attainment of which facilitates the development of multicultural value orientations. The materials of the article can be useful for psychologists-practitioners, social workers as well as staff members of educational institutions. L. V. Shukshina et al.876

Section: Resultsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Development of Multicultural Value Orientations in Future Specialists in the Context of a Higher Education Institution

Shukshina¹,

Bazhdanova²,

Koretskaya³

et al. 2017

“…A group makes the processes of self-realization, self-study and self-cognition easy; 8. A group work form is also more preferable in an economic aspect: work in a training course is more affordable for participants than individual therapy (and for many people training work is much more effective) [36,37,38,39,40,41,42,43].…”

Section: Methodological Bases and Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

A Social and Psychological Training Course as a form of Teaching in the Process of the Students’ Professional Education at a Higher Education Institution

Enyashina¹,

Гриднева²,

Khudyakova³

et al. 2017

The article is devoted to a very important problem of contemporary education -the problem of professional and personal development and self-determination of a student at a higher education institution. The article outlines the theoretical analysis of studying the role of a training course in the educational process, as well as advantages of applying the social and psychological training course as a form of teaching for specialists' education. The theoretical-phenomenological analysis and a forming experiment were used as the study methods. The conclusions described in the article emphasize the fact that a student should have initial opportunities, abilities, knowledge, competence, skills and a high motivation to achieve a high level of professionalism in his professional activity. It is very important that a professional should not only possess mastery but be recognized to have a high effectiveness and stability of activity results which is achieved by the use of various forms and methods of teaching in the process of professional education. The social and N. G. Enyashina et al. 754psychological training course is a form of work that helps to effectively develop the skills of professional activity creating the emotionally safe milieu in students' learning that gives an opportunity of getting an active feedback and forming a skill of self-analysis. This article can be of use to teachers of higher education institutions, social workers as well as to psychologists-practitioners.

“…In this sense, the duality of the nature of social attitude enables it to be a regulating agent of social behavior and an individual's activity in society. On this basis we put forward a hypothesis of the interrelation between the system of social attitudes and teenagers' value orientations as a foundation of regulating their behavior that has influence on the manifestation of this or that form of behavior including deviant ones [19,20,21,22,23,24,25,26,27].…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Experience of Studying Specific Features of Social Attitudes and Value Orientations among Normative and Deviant Teenagers

Efimova¹,

Oshchepkov²,

Chirkovskaya³

et al. 2017

The topical problem of deviant behavior in the teen milieu is raised in the article. For this purpose, specific features of value orientations and social attitudes in normative and deviant teenagers are studied in the article. Empirical research was conducted with the use of psychological tests of values, the semantic differential and proneness to deviant behavior, and the results' processing and interpretation is carried out on the basis of a comparative analysis with application of the statistical criterion. Based on the data obtained the conclusions have been drawn about the specific features of value orientations and social attitudes in normative and deviant teenagers that are expressed in deviant teenagers' striving for the thrills and determine the manifestation of deviations in their behavior.