Features of self-improvement as a category of student personality development

Abstract

The article in the context of the study of the problem defines a categorical analysis of the concept of personal self-improvement. The lexical meaning of the term self-improvement is outlined and considered as a socio-personal phenomenon in the context of conscious human interaction with a particular social environment. The category of personality is characterized and its features are determined. The addition of the concept of "self-improvement" with the defining term "personal" is substantiated and its primary role of the subject in actualizing his own possibilities of further systemic movement in the model of social relations is determined. The definition of the key category in relation to a basic secondary school student is analyzed and clarified. Significant changes in the motivational sphere of his personality, which determines the active mental development of the adolescent. New internal positions and the emergence of special needs have been identified, in particular attempts to overcome the boundaries of school in their self-realization and to join the life and activities of adults. The relevance of personal self-improvement of students of basic secondary school in this age period is substantiated. A comparative analysis of the level of mental and personal development of primary school and primary school students. Radical changes and the ratio of the main changes in the content and the ratio of the main motivational tendencies of the adolescent's personality are determined. It is proved that adolescence is sensitive to the development of personal self-awareness. Manifestations of the desire for independence are markedly different in younger and older adolescents. It is substantiated that adolescence is characterized by objective changes in the living conditions of the child, which encourage him to actively try self-education, self-esteem, self-development, self-improvement. Within the limits of the researched problem the characteristic features of pupils of basic secondary school are defined.