FUNCTIONS OF FORECASTING AND PROJECTING IN THE SYSTEM OF FOREIGN STUDENTS’ SOCIAL AND PEDAGOGICAL SUPPORT

Abstract

The article presents the theoretical characteristics of the strategic functions of the system of foreign student’s social and pedagogical support, namely, the prognostic and the project functions. The features of forecasting during the adaptation process are considered, which are in the consideration of the entire spectrum of probable actions and potential problem situations. This will allow to find a solution during the preparatory stage, to form the appropriate skills, to overcome them and carry out the practical activity more effectively in future. Thus, the prognostic function plays an important role in the system of foreign students’ socio-pedagogical support, allowing them to make prognostic activities both the potential events that will occur when performing an action and the consequences of choosing a particular approach or cultural pattern when communicating with a representative of another country and culture. Adaptive activity is not only about the formation of the necessary skills to be able to interact with representatives of other culture and to conduct an effective academic process. But this kind of activity can be carried out only as a result of achieving the goals set by the projective function. The features of which are: to formulate the purpose of the whole adaptation process, that will move to the next stages of socio-pedagogical support projecting; to have a goal that allows you to find and approve the tools that must be used in the adaptation process; to build a sequence of actions that will help to achieve the goal, that provides the selection of stages; to take into account the importance of evaluating the results that will be formed during the adaptation activity to determine the level of development of knowledge and skills of a foreign student, to determine the need for additional training or retraining. All these components allow us to talk about the necessity to build a model by the foreign student and consultant, which will demonstrate the sequence of actions aimed at projecting adaptation activities. This kind of model will allow to formulate the stages of the preparatory process, including the development of an adaptation program.