ADOLESCENTS’ LIVING COMPETENCY: ESSENCE AND FEATURES OF FORMATION IN THE CONDITIONS OF COMPREHENSIVE EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION

Abstract

The article highlights the priority of implementation and conceptual ideas of a competent approach to education in Ukraine. The topicality of forming the vital competence of the younger generation in the conditions of modernity, which is a necessity of development of a fully developed personality, a responsible, independent, competent citizen as a member of a civilized society, is substantiated. The purpose of the article is to determine the essence of the adolescents’ life competence and the features of its formation in a general secondary school. The essence of the concepts of «competence», «vital competence», peculiarities of personal and social development of adolescents taking into account modern realities of a society's life are analyzed with the help of general scientific methods of analysis, synthesis, generalization and systematization of pedagogical sciences. The specifics of social and pedagogical activity with this category of children are investigated. The result of scientific research is an attempt to reveal the essence of the definition of «adolescents’ life competence» as a deliberated complex of personal characteristics and abilities in terms of manifestation of responsible, independent and socially mature behavior within their age development; definition of priority and secondary life goals and perspectives with the development of variational plans for their achievement; carrying out of one's own life in the context of continuous self-improvement as a key segment of personal development in general. The socio-pedagogical potential of a comprehensive educational institution is outlined in order to create comfortable conditions for the development and incipience of the individual of each student, the formation of key competencies for the adolescents’ life. There was determined the necessity of concentration of pedagogical efforts and organization of social-pedagogical work with adolescents at school in the following directions as: promotion of their positive socialization; formation of the need for continuous self-education, self-realization in various spheres of life, ability to choose goals, to develop plans for their achievement, ability to solve life problems of varying complexity; the development of critical thinking, autonomy, competitiveness, social activity, key life competencies. The attention is focused on the need for professional training of pedagogical staff, in particular, social pedagogues, for working with adolescents in the context of the orientation of a modern school on the development of the vital competence of the child's personality. The technologies of socio-pedagogical activity with adolescents in school are highlighted, which, in our opinion, will promote both the formation of the competence of the younger generation and the successful implementation of the competence approach in education in general.