DEVELOPMENT OF STUDENT SELF-GOVERNMENT SYSTEM IN 1980S

Abstract

The article analyzes the development of student self-government in 1980s. Main trends, contradictions and laws of the development of student self-government have been identified and classified. The structure, principles, methods and forms of student self-government in the higher education institutions of Ukraine in the context of national education have been identified. The author explained the peculiarities of the development of student self-government in the educational process of national higher education institutions during 1980s. Main tendenciess of the development of student self-government in this period include: organizational, structural and content. The principals of the development of student self-government include: versatile personally valuable and socially useful activity promotes the formation of the identity of the citizen; direct participation in organizational issuesy increases students’ responsibility for the results of the performed work; students’ control provides the realization of the principles of democracy, publicity and legacy. The main tendencies in the development of student self-government in 1980s became organizationally – procedural (mass character of student self-government when most of students takes part in work of their structural divisions), structurally – substantial (bureaucratization and formalization of activity of the Komsomol and trade-union organization in the field of student self-government), it is urgent – defining (strengthening of democratic principles of legacy and publicity at the end of the analyzed period).