Features of social responsibility of students of a modern university

Abstract

The article touches upon the problem of the social responsibility development of students of a modern university. In this work, social responsibility is defined as an integral quality of a personality that plays an important role in the motivational-value sphere of a person and criterial assessment of his life in the surrounding world according to the works of B.P. Shubnyakova, E.M. Penkova, A.S. Gayazova, M.V. Nikolaeva, V.N. Lukina, I.M. Duranova, T.P. Skrebtsova and others. The authors raise the question of the importance and continuity of developing students’ social responsibility as a professional quality and try to suggest possible ways to improve it, based on the formation of patriotism (constitutional duty, honor, conscience), spiritual and moral culture (traditions and values, morality, ethics of communication and behavior), future specialist’s ideological development of the personality (consciousness, acceptance and adherence to laws, creativity, initiative). This paper focuses on the theoretical substantiation and clarification of the content of the concepts “responsibility”, “social responsibility of students”. The object of the research is social responsibility as an integral quality of a person. The subject of the research is the process of developing students’ social responsibility in the context of professional training. Reliable results were obtained during a survey of the faculty at M. Ospanov West Kazakhstan Medical University for three months (March-May 2021), the sample was of 103 people. The questionnaire included 11 direct questions with 5 answer options, suggesting only one correct answer. The results show that teachers understand the value and significance of the concept “social responsibility”, some of them even single out the criteria and indicators of this phenomenon, but they are not competent enough in choosing effective methods and forms of psychological and pedagogical support of this process in the context of professional training. The theoretical novelty lies in the disclosure of the scientific and theoretical foundations for the development of social responsibility of student. The components of the structure of students’ social responsibility (cognitive, motivational-value, activity, reflexive-prognostic) have been determined. The functions of social responsibility of the individual (informative-cognitive, value-orientational, normative-regulatory and transformative) are highlighted. Based on the works of S.N. Vasilyev supplemented the learning conditions that contribute to an increase in social responsibility among students (a unified favorable socio-cultural environment, self-management, general cultural competencies, reliance on interpersonal trust and empathy, the use of active teaching methods). The practical significance of this work is the author's “Ideas of social responsibility” questionnaire