Summarizing the Experience of Students Future Social Pedagogues Volunteering in the Context of Sustainable Development and Health Preservation of Personality

Abstract

Health is one of the basic, absolute human values, an indicator of civilization and sustainable development, the main criterion for the efficiency of all its spheres. Recently, however, due to the unfavorable political, socio-economic and environmental situation stable trends of deterioration of health status, particularly in Ukraine have been observed. This leads to the critical importance of bringing the different actors, including doctors, teachers, social pedagogues, families, community activities towards preservation of human health as a state of complete well-being in all aspects - physical, mental, social and spiritual. The article presents the experience of volunteering of students future social workers of G.S.Skovoroda Kharkiv National Pedagogical University on health preservation and promotion of sustainable development of children in difficult circumstances, particularly children at the center of social and psychological rehabilitation and orphanages of family type. This activity involves the implementation of measures to restore and strengthen the physical, mental, social and spiritual health of children, motivating them to a healthy lifestyle, value-oriented attitude to their own health and the health of others through awareness of personal responsibility for results of their own life, and individual contribution to the process of social change. An example of non-traditional forms of volunteering of future social pedagogues - the studio theater of social and educational clowning that promotes psychological rehabilitation of children with a positive optimistic attitude to reality, which accordingly defines the feelings, thoughts and actions of a person and greatly determines the outcome of her/his life. The results show that this activity provides a holistic harmonious bodily-physical and mental-spiritual development of the individual. It helps to harmonize the spiritual sphere of the individual and encourages people to their physical and spiritual development. In addition, volunteering has a great potential for the conservation and enhancement of health and promotion of sustainable development as people who need help and volunteers themselves, which determines the importance of dissemination of relevant experience in today's conditions.