ACTUAL ASPECTS OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF SOCIAL AND COMMUNICATIVE ACTIVITY OF STUDENTS

Abstract

The paper considers the procedural aspects of social communication such as meeting the requirements of today’s comprehensive characteristics of social skills of the future specialist, which is manifested in his ability and ability to effectively perform professional duties adequately to each situation by activating socially and professionally important qualities in the competent application of the existing arsenal of professional knowledge, skills and abilities. The semantic elements of social communication as forms of expression of will, practical actions of an individual or a social group in a certain collective activity to achieve a socially significant result are revealed. It is established that the level of development of social and communicative skills can characterize not only the mechanisms of acquiring knowledge, skills, professionally significant qualities in the learning process, but also the peculiarities of the students’ understanding of social reality in general and in specific situations in particular, when both the adaptive mechanisms and the integrated life narratives of the individual are significantly influenced by the characteristics of the social environment. The need for coordination and focus on creating appropriate conditions for attracting external and internal resources (as a set of objectively existing conditions, means, opportunities that can be mobilized and used in the process of development of any system) to address this issue, including the intensification of participation in the development of communication skills of leading agents of influence ‒ subjects of all levels and types of education – traditional, alternative, extracurricular, “non-formal”, etc.
 Keywords: social communication; educational environment; communicative approach; social interaction; subjects of social communication; extracurricular activity; socialization skills; applicants of higher education.