Determinants of Social and Pedagogical Work with Involuntarily Displaced People in Higher Education Institutions

Abstract

Problems of internally displaced people are considered in this article. It has been defined that people from the east of Ukraine were involuntarily displaced because their relocation was carried out within one country due to the fear of becoming a victim of military conflict unlike refugees who have to leave their own country because of the fear to be chased by racial, religion or national reasons or because of belonging to a certain social group or political belief. It has been discovered that the main context of functions and different directions of social work with involuntarily displaced people consists in the support of complementary social environment or the change of social environment in direction of its greater complementarity for people who leave their home and fall into another social environment. It has been emphasized that the system of social and pedagogical work with such people in institutions of higher education has to be designed on the basis of formation and reconstruction of social qualities. It has been revealed that the context of social and pedagogical work with involuntarily displaced people in institutions of higher education will be effective in case it is carried out in such directions as social, social and psychological, social and pedagogical, social and legal, material, social and informational, and social an career-related. The summative stage of the research has been presented. It has given a picture of the level of satisfaction, trust, and attitude of internally displaced people regarding the solution of their problems in higher education institutions, and the reasons of their dissatisfaction with the received services in the institutions.