РОЛЬ ВОЛОНТЕРСЬКОЇ ДІЯЛЬНОСТІ В ФОРМУВАННІ СОЦІАЛЬНОЇ АКТИВНОСТІ УЧНІВ У ЗАКЛАДАХ ЗАГАЛЬНОЇ СЕРЕДНЬОЇ ОСВІТИ

Abstract

The article analyzes and generalizes the role of volunteers in shaping the social activity of adolescents in general secondary education institutions, describes three groups of socially important motivations that motivate adolescents to volunteer work. The actuality of volunteer activity for the formation of the personality during the teenage period is analyzed. The results of the conducted research on the readiness of adolescents to volunteer activity are summarized. The author outlines the main directions and types of volunteer activities. Examples of volunteering activities of adolescents in an institution of general secondary education are given.In order to analyze the content of the volunteer activity, the conditions and mechanisms for its use in the practice of extra-curricular work in the institution of general secondary education, a special study was conducted with the help of the developed “Questionnaire of a potential volunteer”. In the course of the survey, it was discovered that adolescents are positively involved into volunteering, are willing to engage in volunteering, but were not informed enough about volunteer activity. The main areas of activity of volunteers in the institution of general secondary education are: promotion of a healthy lifestyle, advocacy of legal knowledge, assistance to ATO soldiers, assistance to socially vulnerable people, needy layers of the population, an organization of creative activity, patronage work with children, moral education of the individual.The types of volunteers used were as follows: assistance to such social categories of citizens as: the elderly, people with disabilities, migrants, refugees and others; educational work aimed at the prevention of tobacco-smoking, drug addiction, adolescent crime; charity concerts and theatrical performances in orphanages; ecological marches, garbage collection and pollution; promotion of a healthy lifestyle, etc.As a result of the study, it was found that volunteer activity of students contributes to increasing social activity and active participation in volunteering contributes to the development of such social skills as: communicative abilities; experience of responsible interaction; leadership skills; self-organization; executive discipline; protection and advocacy of rights and interests; experience with the group; organizational skills; initiative and others.