Student’s Social Experience Forming in University Vocational Training

Abstract

The paper relevance is determined by the need to form modern specialist’s important
qualities - mobility, being initiative, communicative, acquired on the basis of social ties’
and professional interactions’ experience. In this regard, the paper purpose is to find
the mechanisms for the successful student socialization in the educational process. The
authors suggest social projecting mechanism use in order to adapt students to the
social environment, which consists in the creation and / or participation in the
surrounding reality transformation project. The student’s social experience structure is
revealed and its components are identified (value, cognitive, operational, and reflexive).
The stages of students’ social experience forming on the project-target method basis
that determines the socio-cultural and professional activities integration within the
framework of the project are presented; the teacher functions in this process are
singled out. Based on the identified criteria for the social experience formation (passive,
indifferent, stable), the effectiveness of various types of project activity is shown in the
framework of university students vocational training. The paper is intended for
pedagogical practitioners, heads of students’ extracurricular activities, curators of
student groups, representatives of public organizations implementing socially
significant projects.