СОЦІАЛЬНА АДАПТАЦІЯ СТУДЕНТІВ-ПЕРШОКУРСНИКІВ ЯК НАПРЯМ ДІЯЛЬНОСТІ СОЦІАЛЬНОЇ СЛУЖБИ ВИЩОГО НАВЧАЛЬНОГО ЗАКЛАДУ

Abstract

The first-year students’ social adaptation to studying at the university is one of the leading direction of the institution of higher education social service activity. We can assume that the first-year students’ dissatisfaction with the educational process is caused with a low social adaptation. The first-year students associate their difficulties in studying with the external factors. It fits to the fact that the external locus-control prevails and as e result the first-year students’ social adaptation is insufficient (they don’t take the full responsibility for their education and good studying).Most of the difficulties described by the first-year students substitute the difficulties of another level (for anyone it’s easier to tell that he does not like hard seats and dirty desks than to admit his lack of understanding of the training material). It seems that they can be ignored during training organizing. However, studying in higher education institution is associated with dramatic changes in human life. These changes cause stress, and then the events that previously could have been traced become very important. Perhaps the level of the first-year students’ emotional comfort could be improved by taking into account the difficulties they speak about. Anyway it’s important to teach students self-management and to get them acquainted with the university as an organization.One of the main difficulties and problems of the first-year students’ adaptation is a difficulty on learning activity (didactic aspect of adaptation) and social and psychological problems of communication and joining the student society. Therefore, the main activity of social service in this regard is to facilitate the absorption of the rules and regulations of student life, to optimize the interaction of students and teachers through coaching system, to teach student self-management and time structuring. The training programs, roundtables, leisure activities contributing to the formation of a positive student corporate culture can be used as the main forms of the social service activity.