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SOCIAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL STUDY OF FIRST-YEAR STUDENTS OF KRASNOYARSK STATE PEDAGOGICAL UNIVERSITY NAMED AFTER V. P. ASTAFYEV // Tomsk State Pedagogical University Bulletin. 2017. Issue 1 (178). P. 79-86

The article is devoted to comparative social and psychological analyses of portrait features of first-year students studying at Krasnoyarsk State Pedagogical University named after V. P. Astafyev. Studies social characteristics, motives of choosing the university, attitude to teacher’s profession, expectations from pedagogical process and future professional activity, specific characteristics for the first-year students’ career group. The most important factor determining the success of professional training is students’ motivation, their interest to teacher’s profession. The main result of the experiment is orientation of first-year students to become a qualified professional of high level, that will provide them with great success at the beginning of their working way. Entering Krasnoyarsk State Pedagogical University named after V. P. Astafyev is a way for first-year students to realize their vital aims and plans. The students are eager to get education, which will help them to become specialists in the changing conditions of professional activity, to admit these reforms. Students’ achievements and results are reflected in their personal portfolio. First-year students formulate an order for personal growth trainings, which help to develop the competence to change quickly and adapt to new working conditions. Forming of such competences will simplify students’ acceptance of the new social conditions. Also they hope that their achievements and activity in different spheres of students’ life will be appreciated. The research helps to define the direction of developing a set of measures: to adopt first-year students to educational process at pedagogical university aimed at formation of professional pedagogical values of students of Krasnoyarsk State Pedagogical University named after V. P. Astafyev.

Keywords: first-year students, motives of choice, adaptation, satisfaction with results, career group