The structure and content of social competence of students Pedagogical University

Abstract

In this article different approaches to determining the structure of social competence of students and students are considered and systematized. Also we analyze structure and content of social competence of students of pedagogical university. We must noticed that social competence is one of the major competences of the modern individual, who is responsible for the effective life in society and constructive interaction with different people, social groups and institutions. In article author gives definition of social competence, its importance for the development of personality. Author make conclusion that it is a multicomponent characteristic of a perso which allows comfortably interact with the social environment and avoid conflicts. Presented characteristics of
social competence components of different researchers. It is revealed that the structure of social competence contains components responsible for the presence in the personality some knowledge (knowledge, cognitive, sociological components), motivation (personaly-motivational, motivational components), social values, ability to evaluate events and phenomena (personality-value, value – dispositional components), behavior and activity (activity, behavioral, communicative components), reflections (reflective component), performance of certain social roles (status-role component). We must say that the structure includes both simple components (activity, personality, evaluation), and complex components (personality-motivational, communicative-behavioral). It is noted that the social competence of the students has its peculiarities due to the specificity and uniqueness of the chosen profession. The future teacher must learn to be accountable for his or her own actions, to work on a professional level, and to encourage others to achieve a social goal. It is revealed that social competence contains cognitive-value (presence of social representations, value orientations), emotional-motivational (presence of motivation for the development of one’s own social competence), operational-activity (possession of constructive interaction skills with the external environment), reflexive ability to react for emerged social situations). Emphasise on the social competencies that a future teacher of Ukrainian language and literature must possess.