Tutor support of social development of primary school pupils in a private school as an innovative socio-pedagogical technology

Abstract

Based on a theoretical study of information available in the world and domestic science and his own pedagogical experience, the author characterises the tutoring of social development of primary school pupils in private schools as an innovative socio-pedagogical technology. The elitist status of pupils’ parents in private secondary schools, their requirements to the specifics of their children's socialisation, force private schools to organise tutoring of social growth, which can be considered a process of significant quantitative and qualitative changes in social life. The article considers social development as a dual process, in the context of socialisation and individualisation. The author emphasizes that the primary school age is sensitive to the process of social development because in this period, the child takes an active place in various social relations, where his / her "I" is equivalent to others, which develops a new stage of self-awareness in society, social responsibility . It is confirmed that tutoring accompanies the child to enter the sphere of social life, culture; it contributes to the creation of value orientations, child's lifestyle, and his / her own social experience. It is established that tutoring of social development of junior schoolchildren is based on 3 main approaches: compensatory, educational-perspective and integration- and person-oriented. The tutor of the primary level of a private educational institution in the course of tutoring social development performs the roles of a social mentor, a personal growth tracker, a mediator, an education and development manager. The author identifies psycho- and socio-diagnostic, practice-oriented methods, methods of problem-based learning, methods of analysis and self-analysis, methods of organising independent work by the main methods aimed at tutoring social development of junior schoolchildren. It is generalised that the tutoring of junior schoolchildren’s social development has 5 main stages: diagnostic, motivational, cognitive-axiological, activity-based and behavioural, reflexive-corrective.