Social competence of student youth

Abstract

The relevance of the scientific investigation involves understanding the importance of the social competence concept in the students’ environment in terms of distance learning, which has arisen based on quarantine restrictions. The purpose of the scientific investigation is to identify the formation level of social competence of student youth in the educational environment within the conditions of pandemic in the process of distance learning. Methods of pedagogical research (remote interaction), sociological (survey in Google-forms) and statistical methods have been used to form a methodological base. It has been revealed that in the conditions of distance learning at HEI during a pandemic, social competence undergoes significant changes, considering that the results of a survey of students are significant, indicating a decrease in the level of socialization. The practical significance of the results of the scientific investigation is aimed at improving the social development of the individual, outlining the main transitions between levels of socialization in terms of quarantine restrictions and distance learning.

Bendrojo lavinimo mokyklos mokinių socialinės kompetencijos ugdymas neformaliojo ugdymo kontekste

“…Measuring levels of formation of social competence requires investigation of structure of the object of study. In the aspect of diagnostics of development of social competence in high school students the contributions by Ukrainian and foreign scientists like Caena (2019), Khuziakhmetov (2016), Kochenderfer-Ladd (2019), Kuranchie (2021), Pavlyk (2014), Salyakhova (2015), Savelchuk (2021), Sleptsova (2019), Yudin (2014) present particular interest for interpretation the notion of social competence of high school students as the ability of an individual to active life self-determination and self-realisation in active social interaction based on acquired knowledge, skills, abilities and values. The differences in the approaches of researchers to the interpretation of the structural components of social competence allow to distinguish among three main directions in the studied issue.…”