The article analyzes the results of a study aimed at studying overcoming as a leading factor that ensures self-development of the individual and actualizes the need to use pedagogical tools in modern educational practice that contribute to the formation in children and young people of the perception of overcoming difficulties as an opportunity for personal growth. The relevance of studying the problem of self-development and its procedural component is due to various reasons: the new socio-cultural reality, which predetermined the rapid pace of self-development as a condition for the competitiveness of the individual; a high level of motivation of the younger generation to achieve success as a result of self-development; the unpreparedness of modern children and youth to overcome obstacles on the way to achieving the goal; the presence of psychological barriers blocking readiness for self-development. The conclusions are based both on the results of a theoretical analysis of modern scientific literature and on the results of our surveys. Empirical research methods were survey methods presented by the author’s tools. The study involved 2474 students aged 11-16 living in the Moscow, Yaroslavl, Kostroma and Kaluga regions. The study included the design and testing of the technology of pedagogical support for self-development of adolescents in additional education in a situation of overcoming difficulties, the implementation of which makes it possible to form adolescents’ readiness for self-development, helps to build up individual experience of successful overcoming through the purposeful formation of adaptive coping strategies. The conclusion is made about the effectiveness of the implementation of technology in the conditions of additional education, as well as the possibility of dissemination of the received pedagogical experience in educational organizations of various types and types.
Keyword(s) : additional education
Students’ Subjective Well-Being as a Criterion for Evaluating the Effectiveness of Children’s Centers: Evidence from All-Russian Children’s Center “Ocean”
There is a problem in evaluating improvements in education effectiveness that is related to the
selection of appropriate, clear assessment criteria and methods for measuring the results of the
educational process. This article discusses the possibility of using the students’ subjective well-being
as a criterion for internal evaluation of the educational system effectiveness in a children’s center.
It describes indicators of subjective well-being and methods for studying them. The process was
tested at the All-Russian Children’s Center “Ocean” in 2019. Two cohorts participated in the study:
‘Parus’ (92 people aged 13 to 17 years, average age 14.7 years) and ‘Brigantine’ (74 people aged
11 to 17 years, average age 15.2 years) – a total of 168 people. To study the cognitive component
of well-being, the level of satisfaction among students in “Ocean,” and the opportunity to realize
their needs in this children’s center were assessed. The study used a modified methodology of
international index of personal well-being, a modified version of the techniques ‘Level of correlation
values and accessibility in various spheres of life’ developed by E. B Fantalova. To assess the
emotional component of pupils’ well-being, their prevailing emotional background was studied
using a modified version of the questionnaire ‘Feelings in school’ developed by T. N. Klyuyeva).
The subjective well-being indicators in specific aspects of the children’s center life were analyzed,
both for the center as a whole and separately for the cohorts. This analysis made it possible to assess
the possibilities of fulfilling different children’s needs in the Centre, the number of areas where
there was an internal conflict (due to insufficient subjective availability of value) and an internal
vacuum (due to excessive presence of low-value phenomena in the child’s life). An integral indicator
of misalignment was taken into account, showing the degree of internal dissatisfaction and the
obstacles to basic life needs.