Adaptation of a Teenagers’ Personality in the Multicultural Environment of a Children’s Social Organization

Abstract

The article theoretically summarizes the problem of formation of a multicultural environment as a condition for the adaptation of a teenager in a children‟s public organization. In modern education, multiculturalism is an acute issue, which reveals itself in social organizations, too. Children‟s social movements and organizations, which run educational activities under the guidance of professional teachers, have a positive effect on the personality development and socialization of teenagers. Psychological and pedagogical science has not yet fully described such a complex multifactorial process as a multicultural educational space. This is also relevant for children‟s social organizations that operate in the multicultural environment and are multicultural themselves. The wide pedagogical and educational sphere, and the sphere of personality development in teenagers, needs research on multiculturalism, and of particular importance are the works devoted to the activities of children‟s social organizations and the multicultural environment as a form and product of the activities of bearers of different cultures. Researchers have already established that factors aimed at the development of the subject‟s social activity contribute to the spiritual enrichment of both various microenvironments and the multicultural environment itself. When considering the multicultural environment as a condition for the adaptation of a teenager in a social organization, we analyzed the available works on the problem and found that this phenomenon can be seen a certain form and product of the activities of people of different cultures. Therefore, factors aimed at developing the social activity of a teenager contribute to the spiritual enrichment of both various microenvironments and the multicultural environment itself. The analysis of the modern academic sources and the realities of the pedagogical and sociocultural situation confirm that recently the problems of adaptation of a teenager in a children‟s public organization have received noticeable attention in educational science. The analysis of the scientific and pedagogical literature on the problem and the study of its real state based on the generalization of the experience of a number of children‟s social organizations suggest that the multicultural environment is one of the most important conditions for the adaptation of a teenager in a children‟s social organization.