Изучение готовности подростков к саморазвитию в русле экзистенциальных подходов в педагогике: результаты экспериментального исследования

Abstract

The article considers the problem of studying the current level of adolescents' readiness for self-development, which is one of the key ones in the modern educational system in the Russian Federation. The solution to this practical problem appears as an important and necessary step in determining the essence of pedagogical support for the self-development of adolescents and its technological content. Carrying out a study in line with existential approaches in pedagogy, a guideline is made on understanding the adolescent’s readiness for self-development as the formation of the adolescent’s personality, able to live life on the basis of his existential choice, conscious of its meaning and realizing itself in accordance with this choice. The paper proposes the structure and criteria for the readiness of adolescents to self-development, compiles a package of psychodiagnostic techniques aimed at studying its value-semantic, motivational, activity and reflective-regulatory criteria, presents the procedure and results of an experimental study in which 2000 schoolchildren from the cities of Kaluga and Kaluga took part area. Diagnostic results revealed a high level of severity of the components of the value-semantic and motivational sphere in adolescents, which indicates a tendency of the individual to a subjective position. However, poorly expressed indicators of the reflexive-regulatory sphere, which, along with the presence of separate indicators of the value-semantic sphere, allow us to fix the problem of adolescents 'readiness for self-development, which determines the need for organizing pedagogical support for teenagers' self-development. The study showed that there are typical indicators of the formation of the essential spheres of personality typical for adolescence, however, there are features dictated by gender, age differences and differences in the sociocultural environment.
 
 Acknowledgments: The reported study was funded by RFBR, project number 20-013-00616.