Modern guidelines for training future specialists of the socionomic sphere in the development of vitality and life creativity

Abstract

The relevance of the problem under study is caused by the need to clarify modern guidelines for training in the development of future specialists’ vitality and life creativity in the socionomic sphere in general, and social educators and primary school teachers in particular. This training is aimed at strengthening and replenishing the vital resources and potentials of future specialists under difficult conditions of the existing wartime. It has been found that a person is able to withstand life's troubles, showing "resilience" as an opportunity to positively adapt to difficult situations, quickly recover, maintain a state of calm and well-being, that is, vitality. At the same time, it was found that a person is also able to show "hardiness," as an ability that allows not only to show vitality, but also to understand that danger is the beginning of new changes in life and it should be perceived as an incentive for the development of personal capabilities, but not as a threat. The analysis of the problem under focus indicates the possibility of increasing the proportion of resources and potentials of an individual in five essential, interrelated spheres. The allocation of the component composition was based both on the scientists’ theoretical heritage in the educational sphere, and on the author's personal long-term experience in the training of future social educators and teachers in pedagogical activity. Among the significant spheres of civil society, influencing the formation and development of vitality and life creativity of future specialists, there are the ones as follows: personal, social, cultural, physical and spiritual. In the process of profession-oriented training, future social educators and primary school teachers are offered to study certain topics aimed at forming awareness of the development of vitality and competence in the development of life creativity of both specialists and students. Theoretical and practical analyses of the problem under study showed the need for further study in the context of developing a holistic system of awareness formation, both awareness of their resources and potentials, and competence, as the ability of future specialists in the socionomic sphere to develop their own vitality and life creativity and the ones of their students.