OPPORTUNITIES AND RESTRICTIONS OF SOCIO-PEDAGOGICAL ACTIVITY IN THE COUNTRYSIDE

The relevance of the research materials presented in the article is determined by the need to organize high-quality socio-pedagogical activities to form and develop students’ social competence in rural society. This type of activity in rural school as one of the main institutions of students’ socialization involves the creation of pedagogical conditions that contribute to the social adaptation, social integration and social autonomy of young people. The article considers possibilities and restrictions of sociopedagogical activity taking into account the peculiarities of students’ socialization in rural society. The results of aerobatic socio-pedagogical study of potentials and limitations of socio-pedagogical activity in rural areas are presented, which was carried out in 2020 in three educational organizations of Nekrasovsky and Yaroslavsky districts of the Yaroslavl region,. The study involved 398 respondents, including 140 two rural schools, 217 parents of students of two rural schools and pupils of one rural preschool educational organization, 41 teachers and seven leadership personnel of these educational organizations. The results of the work of four focus groups of the problem group «Modern problems of rural schoolchildren’s socialization in modern conditions and ways to solve them» of the interregional laboratory «Pedagogy in rural school» of the Scientific Center of the Russian Academy of Education at Yaroslavl State Pedagogical University named after K. D. Ushinsky are presented. The interest of all categories of respondents to the problem of the development of integrated social and pedagogical activities in the countryside and the interest of students’ parents, teachers and leaders in the implementation of interaction with organizations and institutions of rural society was revealed. The study showed the «reference points for the development» of sociopedagogical activities in the countryside, updated the problem of the need for systematic coordinated socio-pedagogical activities in rural society, studying its capabilities and limitations, improving the forms and methods of organizing this type of activity (sociopedagogical complexes, coordination councils, headquarters, socio-pedagogical monitoring, etc.), as well as the need to prepare specialists for high-quality support of socio-pedagogical activities in rural society.