PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT OF SOCIALLY GIFTED TEENAGERS BY MEANS SOCIO-PSYCHOLOGICAL EXPERIMENT
Journal Title: Problems of Education in the 21st Century - Year 2007, Vol 2, Issue 9
Abstract
The paper deals with the problem of elaborating psychological means of personal development of socially gifted teenagers (youth leaders) in changing social milieu nowadays. Teenage leadership is supposed to be learnt and formed within the framework of specially organized social environment – social oasis. The process of social oasis design based upon social learning and working out adequate social technologies makes it possible to improve gifted teenagers motivation. Combination of social cognition and social action makes it possible to perform social renovation of youth personality and reach higher level of small groups’ social maturity. The tools to design social oasis suggested by paper’s authors are: forming of mental culture of youth groups; inclusion of educational specialist into joint action with alumnus; engaging all participa-tors into highly organized commonality; introduction of democratic organizational procedures in small groups; aggregative spatial organization of joint actions; social, mental and objective enrichment of activities; strengthening of intellectual, emotional and behavioral component joint activities in small groups.
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Chernyshov, A, Sarychev, S, Lobkov, J
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