Preparation of Future Masters of Pedagogical Directions for the Socio-Cultural Education of Students

The article reveals the problem of training masters of pedagogical directions, its importance for the implementation of socio-cultural education of students. The urgency of the problem is due to a decrease in attention to the spiritual and moral education of the younger generation, which includes various value orientations that contribute to the education of the student’s personality. The authors analyze the approaches to solving the problem in modern conditions and propose a training course “Socio-cultural education of students” for the implementation of the training of masters of pedagogical directions, which examines the issues of socio-cultural education of students who form a responsible attitude to their family, society, people and shows the close relationship of socially successful socialization of the individual in the educational space of culture. Within the framework of the developed discipline included in the curriculum for the preparation of master’s students in the direction 44.04.01 Pedagogical education, the master’s program “Safety in the technosphere and in educational institutions” implements a practice-oriented approach aimed at the socio-cultural education of students and their preparation as future teachers for the socio-cultural education of students. The course content includes the issues of socio-cultural education of students from the standpoint of cultural, competence-based, systemic, personality-oriented, axiological, event-based and integrative approaches, as well as social knowledge about the individual, society and civilization, and the application of the acquired knowledge in their pedagogical professional activities. The article presents a historical and pedagogical analysis of the state’s attitude to the formation of the personality of students in the context of the formation of pedagogical science, experience and scientific research of contemporaries on the problem of socio-cultural education, as well as the results of the introduction of the course “Socio-cultural education of students”, problems and prospects of its development for the preparation of future masters of pedagogical directions for the socio-cultural education of students.