Organizational principles of professionally-oriented cultural and leisure activities of student youth
Cultural and leisure activities at a university is the most important component of educational work, the pedagogically expedient content and direction of which contributes to the creation of optimal conditions for the formation of a valuable attitude among students for future professional activity, development of general and professional culture, creative abilities, intellectual and leadership potential, and development of experience of organizing their life through participation in the preparation and conduct of various forms of student entertainment. Existing approaches to the organization of cultural and leisure activities, as a means of personal and professional development of students, do not adequately disclose fundamental positions of constructing technological process of leisure activities of a professional orientation, which raises the problem of actualizing the process of studying the organizational foundations of student-oriented cultural and leisure activities of student youth. Theoretical analysis and experimental research, which was based on a questionnaire survey, allowed the author to present data of a sociological survey reflecting the position of young professionals in the modern labor market; to determine the essence and content of a professionally-directed cultural and leisure activity as a means of professional and personal development of students, formation of an active personal and professional position as the most important condition for competitiveness in the socio-economic conditions of modern Russian society; to determine the principles of organization of a pedagogically expedient process of cultural and leisure activities at university, reflecting the focus on the formation of active life and professional position of students.