Organizational and Pedagogical Conditions for the Development of Social and Communicative Competence of Future Educational Managers

A modern leader must have not only professional knowledge, but also such important and necessary qualities as purposefulness, energies, a sense of responsibility, sociability, organizational skills, an ability to reflect, i.e. social and communicative competence, which is key in the structure of professional competence of an educational manager and allows for effective communication in the context of social interaction. The aim of the study is to develop, theoretically substantiate and experimentally test the system of organizational and pedagogical conditions for the development of social and communicative competence of master students. The authors set a number of tasks, including clarification of the concept of “social and communicative competence of master students” based on the analysis of scientific research; development of a system of organizational and pedagogical conditions for the development of social and communicative competence of master students; determination of the state and problems in the development of social and communicative competence of master students of the Federal State Budgetary Educational Institution of Higher Education “Yaroslav-the-Wise Novgorod State University” (Veliky Novgorod) on the basis of a diagnostic study; implementation of the system of organizational and pedagogical conditions for the development of social and communicative competence of master students under the “Educational Management” program of the “Pedagogical Education” direction; generalization and description of research results. To solve the set tasks, a system-synergetic approach and the principle of cooperation and corporatism were used. The result of the theoretical part of the research is: clarification of the concept of “social and communicative competence of master students” as the ability of students for effective communication in conditions of social interaction; the structure of the concept under consideration includes four competence-components: communicative competence (the ability to actively interact with people around, to reflect on one's communication tactics), social competence (social interaction), organizational competence (the ability to organize and manage the work of a team), reflexive competence (selfassessment, analysis of one's own activities and activities of colleagues); determination of the system of organizational and pedagogical conditions for the development of social and communicative competence of master students, including regulatory support of educational activities, creation of an information and educational environment, competitive organization of classroom and extracurricular educational activities, monitoring the development of social and communicative competence of master students. The results of the study confirmed the hypothesis that the process of developing the social and communicative competence of master students will be effective if a system of organizational and pedagogical conditions is developed and implemented.