Palatkina G.V., Zaychenko E.A. Innovative Technologies For Developing Leadership Skills of University Students in Terms of Their Socio-Cultural Activities

Abstract: The subject of the present research is the pedagogical analysis of the socio-cultural space of developing students' leadership skills. The significant aspect of the study is the pedagogical analysis of the socio-cultural space of developing students' leadership skills as the category and phenomenon. The article is aimed at understanding the problem of developing leadership skills of university students in the context of the broader global and socio-cultural issues. The socio-cultural activities of the student are considered as the two-way process of developing personal and professional competences of students. The authors of the article use empirical data obtained by the researchers of Astrakhan State University on the supporting innovative platform of the  scientific-methodical council on the development of educational activities 'Educational and methodical association in areas of teacher education Innovative socialization of college students management tools'. Research methodology is defined by the combination of the systems approach, the concept of structured teaching conditions and processes, situational approach and environmental approach. The authors analyze substantial and structural processes of socio-cultural dynamics of the environment where students' leadership are developed  by the means of combining pedagogical research methodology with categories, concepts, tools, forms, methods and technologies of sociocultural activities. The scientific novelty of the research is caused by the fact that the authors identify some of the key characteristics of the socio-cultural space for developing students' leadership: characteristic of the student's leadership skills  as an educational outcome, typological characteristics of leadership as a personal quality of a student, leader's functions in the educational process of high school and socio-cultural activities of the university in the developing of leadership skills of university students.    

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