SENIOR SCHOOL AGE AS A SENSITIVE PERIOD FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF SOCIO-PERSONAL COMPETENCES

Abstract

The relevance of the study is determined by the tasks corresponding to the leading directions of the Law of Ukraine “On Education” (2017) and the concept of the New Ukrainian School (2016), where priorities are determined by the formation of key competences in the education of the competitive individualof the 21st century: a comprehensively developed person with critical thinking, a patriot with an active civil position, an innovator capable of changing the world and learning throughout life. The purpose of the article is to analyze modern scientific research, which is devoted to the characteristics of personal psychological developments in senior students in the context of the development of their social and personal competence. The article uses the theoretical research method, namely: analysis of scientific sources, generalization and systematization of scientific data on the characteristics of a sensitive period for the development of social and personal competence of senior students. The author considers social and personal changes in young people, namely: changes in value orientations, construction of life goals and plans, motivation of success, self-determination and self-realization, critical and creative thinking, communicative skills and cooperation, reflection, etc. The article states that the central development of personality in early adolescence is the child’s readiness for life self-determination, which is directed by value orientations, practical, communicative, creative activity, where the main meaningful motive of each activity is the motive of self-realization in this activity, which is necessary to comprehend. The author describes all developments of older teenagers in the context of components of social and personal competences. In the article, theoretical study confirms that such components of social and personal competence as critical and creative thinking, communication skills, ability to cooperate and self-determination at adolescence undergo changes (sometimes quite significant). Thus, the period of study in the upper classes is more sensitive to the influence on the development of all components of social and personal competence.