On Some Issues Related to Students'' Adaptation to the Life under the Conditions of Hostel
The article dwells on the problem being for today - it is optimization of theory and practice concerned with a preparation of highly qualified human resources. The peculiarities of student’s life under hostel conditions of are disclosed. The author's central attention is concentrated on the issue of transition - student's adaptation to the new environment he(she) whirls in after the in the family, to higher school educational mileu from that one of secondary school. The work has been conducted on the basis of rational combination of theoretical and empirical methods of pedagogical research. Such methods are: formalization and modelling of psychologico-pedagogical processes, pedagogical observation, pedagogical analysis of students' life activity under hostel conditions. The work bars an interdisciplinary character as the problem researched and the ways of its solution have been carried at the junction of pedagogy, psychology and sociology. The author discloses the notion of «adaptation» in reference to higher school milieu. The new material on the explored theme is generalized, such notions as «transition», «adaptation», «everyday hostel life of students» are introduced into usage. The author proposes three levels of everyday life organization: the first group - high level; the second group - middle level; the third group - low level. This type of outlook will be interesting for experts working in high school spheres. Considerable attention is paid to planning and organization of upbringing work in a hostel. Pedagogical experience related to the problem explored is generalized. In the conclusion the author discloses the peculiarities of the formation of the quality of self-sufficience which plays a decisive role in students' adaptation to their new life.