THE ROLE OF SOCIAL AND PROFESSIONAL ADAPTATION AT VOCATIONAL GUIDANCE OF HIGH SCHOOL PUPILS OF THE SECONDARY SCHOOLS IN UKRAINE

Abstract

The essence and types of socio-professional adaptation of pupil youth as to the choice of future professional activity were elucidated in the article. The scientific-pedagogical literature that considers the socio-professional adaptation from the different positions was analyzed. The stages of socio-professional adaptation and their role in vocational guidance of high-school pupils of the secondary educational institutions of Ukraine were characterized. The factors, criteria and parameters that influence the choice of professional activity by the pupils were elucidated. The special attention was paid to the motives of professional choice, to the interests and inclinations of high-school pupils in the process of vocational guidance of secondary educational institutions of Ukraine. The author concentrates attention on the main forms of socio-professional adaptation and scientifically grounds pedagogical conditions of vocational guidance of pupils of the higher school for the support of effective educational process. The attention is paid to the important aspects of socio-professional adaptation, conditioned by the inclusion of pupils in the complicated system of socio-productive activity. The main principles of socio-professional adaptation of pupils that favor the elaboration of individual style of the work with pupils that motivates them to the correct choice of future profession. The accent is also made on the factors of socio-professional adaptation that motivate pupils to the formation of individual style of activity at choosing profession. The subject fields and functions that are the specific professional area and play an important role in the process of vocational guidance of pupils of high school as to socio-professional adaptation to the future profession were analyzed.