INFLUENCE OF EXTRACURRICULAR EDUCATIONAL WORK ON THE FORMATION OF ADOLESCENTS’ SOCIAL EXPERIENCE: EMOTIONAL AND VALUE ASPECT

Abstract

We conducted a research on the level of formation of the emotional and value aspect of adolescents’ social experience (N = 472). The preconditions of the research were significant changes in the educational system and social life of Ukraine which are connected with the European integration process. The research was carried out according to the following indicators: the unity of needs and interests of society and students as its members; the ability to adequately assess the values offered by society and to make them personal values; the formation of your emotional and evaluative attitude to yourself in social reality, awareness and understanding of other people’s ideas about themselves. The purpose of the paper is to reveal the impact of extracurricular educational work on the formation of the emotional and value aspect of adolescents’ social experience. In accordance with the goal, the following tasks must be solved: to determine the essential content of adolescents’ social experience and the process of its formation; to clarify and substantiate the indicators of adolescents’ social experience formation according to the reflection-evaluation criterion; to investigate the results of the survey regarding the determination of the levels of adolescents’ social experience formation according to the reflection-evaluation criterion; to substantiate the content, methods and types of extracurricular educational work on the formation of the emotional and value aspect of adolescents’ social experience. Methodology of the study is based on methods of systematic analysis of psychological-pedagogical and methodical sources on the specified problem, generalization of pedagogical experience, synthesis, comparison, systematization of theoretical and empirical data, survey, pedagogical observation, analysis of lessons and extracurricular activities in the context of the studied problem, pedagogical experiment, quantitative and qualitative analysis of research results. Results. The survey results revealed the following problems of adolescents: low motivation for the support of public interests, low ability to assess and interiorize the values offered by society. It is difficult for adolescents to realize if their behavior is correct, to understand their attitude to the surrounding reality and how they are perceived by others. Practical implications. We had improved the extracurricular educational work of several schools in Ukraine, after that a re-diagnostics was carried out which made it possible to trace the positive dynamics in improving the level of adolescents’ social experience. We defined such types and methods of extracurricular educational work with adolescents as educational lessons, discussions, conversations, excursions, quizzes, Literature and Art Club. All of these should be focused on socio-cultural development according to their content.