Abstract
The study is aimed at finding the varieties of appealing spheres for realization of students’ potential in higher school. The authors substantiate and develop the concept of attractors for students’ self-realization, which designate the appealing spheres and forms of manifestation of students’ personal efforts and capacities in higher education. The methods of conceptual-applied reconstruction and psychological surveys are used to determine the attractive space for students’ self-development. The study identifies a group of potentially attractive spheres (learning-cognitive, research, sports-wellness, volunteer, artistic-creative, innovative-entrepreneurial, information-media, social-civic, sphere of cross-cultural communication). The study presents the results of diagnosing the subjective significance of these spheres for students of different specialties and different levels of self-realization in education. The conclusion is made about the tendency of influence of students’ involvement in attractive spheres on the success of their self-realization in educational environment. The prospects of applying and operating the category of attractors as socio-cultural predictors of successful self-realization and psychological well-being of students in the process of University training are shown.
Highlights
Personality development is inextricably bound up with the process of education
The term “attractor” is considered as “... one of the key concepts of synergetics, characterizing the relatively stable structure of an object, which attracts all sorts of trajectories of system elements, directing their movement and evolution in a certain direction
We identified them as attractors of self-realization: learning activity, research activity, sports-wellness activity, volunteer work, artistic-creative activity, entrepreneurial activity, information-media activity, social-civic activity, cross-cultural communications
Summary
Personality development is inextricably bound up with the process of education. It is in the field of training and education that the foundations of mental system and inner world of the future generations are laid. It introduces a young person to the professional world, shows the heights of scientific cognition, experience of culture of thinking and understanding the reality and forms comprehension of the world and his predestination in it (Barnett, 2005; Ilyinsky, 2002). The stability and healthy development of the personality depend largely on the stable and effective work of higher education institutions (Murray, 2011; Barnett, 2010). It is not a coincidence that the current crisis of higher education has exacerbated the crisis in the youth community, which is losing its value stability, cultural identity, ability to creative activity, etc. It is not a coincidence that the current crisis of higher education has exacerbated the crisis in the youth community, which is losing its value stability, cultural identity, ability to creative activity, etc. (Brenner, 2019; Zhuravlev, Volovikova and Galkina, 2014)
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