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DEVELOPMENT OF ANALYTICAL SKILLS OF UNIVERSITY STUDENTS: SCIENTIFIC AND ANALYTICAL REVIEW // Pedagogical Review. 2021. Issue 4 (38). P. 68-75

An analytical review of the problem of the development of analytical skills of students at the university is presented. A comparative characteristic of the concepts «analytical skills» and «analytical abilities» is given. It is concluded that analytical ability is a personality trait, and an analytical skill is the acquired experience of activity. The main mental actions underlying analytical skills are considered. Comparison of two groups of analytical skills is given: analytical-prognostic and analytical-reflexive. The thesis is substantiated that the development of analytical skills is impossible without obtaining new knowledge. Considerable attention is paid to the structure of the concept of «analytical skills». The need for the development of analytical skills among students for the professional development of future specialists is determined. It is concluded that the development of analytical skills takes time, this is a long, systemic process in professional education. The factors (positive and negative) influencing the development of students’ analytical skills are revealed. In the article, the authors focus on assignments and exercises (case assignments) aimed at developing students’ analytical skills. To diagnose the level of development of analytical skills of students, indicators have been developed, as well as the characteristics of the levels of development of analytical skills of university students - low, medium, high. The authors present the results of a pilot study to identify the level of development of analytical skills of students in humanitarian areas of training. The study was conducted in universities in the cities of Stavropol and Krasnodar. The results of the study showed that students have a predominantly medium and low level of development of analytical skills. Based on the results obtained, the authors identified the reasons for the low level of development of analytical skills among modern students.

Keywords: analytical skills, analytical thinking, students, higher education, analytical functions

SOCIAL SUCCESS OF THE FOSTER CHILD AS A FACTOR OF THE EFFICIENCY OF THE FOSTER FAMILY // Pedagogical Review. 2022. Issue 6 (46). P. 104-113

Social success determines social adaptation and acts as a backbone element of personal and professional self-determination of an adopted child. The purpose of the study is to study the social success of an adopted child as a factor in the effectiveness of a foster family. Material and methods: analysis of scientific literature; interval observations of the life of substitute families; analysis of diary entries of foster parents; surveys and interviews with foster children and foster parents, analysis of biographies of foster children, description, generalization and systematization of scientific data. The components of the social success of a foster child in the process of upbringing in a foster family are revealed. As a result of studying the life of foster families, positive and negative socio-psychological phenomena were identified. The key factor in increasing the efficiency of raising foster children is the conditions for the development of their social success, psychological and pedagogical support for social adaptation and readaptation of the child. The scientific novelty of the study lies in the presentation of structured data on the social success of the adopted child and its psychological and pedagogical conditions. The features of the manifestation of social success in the process of vocational education and self-realization as an adopted child as an adult have been established. As a result, the specific features of the behavior of adopted children in demonstrating the external and internal components of social success are highlighted, and the directions of socio-psychological and psychological-pedagogical work with them are presented.

Keywords: social success, foster family, adopted child, socialization of the adopted child, components of social success