Volunteering as a Social and Cultural Phenomenon of Modernity
The article reveals the main theoretical approaches in the research of the socio-cultural phenomenon of volunteering, the study of the structure of this socio-cultural phenomenon, its essential phenomenological characteristics, social functions and socio-cultural technologies that formed the basis of the theory and practice of volunteering pedagogy. At the same time, attention is focused on the fact that the pedagogy of volunteering is an integral part of the general pedagogy and the direction of professional socio-cultural activities. It is argued that professional pedagogical management of socio-cultural practice of volunteering is based on means, forms and methods aimed at attracting, increasing the motivation, social activity, professional and personal growth of the volunteer’s personality, based on the principles of free choice of types and forms of modern volunteering, using its potential in civic and patriotic education. The pedagogy of volunteerism in its research prospects has every reason to further study this area of humanitarian scientific knowledge, develop pedagogical forms, tools, methods in order to attract young people to volunteer activities in the socio-cultural sphere, as well as prospects in designing the content of vocational training of students in the system of higher professional education. The authors present the main aspects of the content of long-term scientific discussions, as well as practical experience in the implementation of socio-cultural projects, educational campaigns that contributed to the development and approval of the pedagogy of volunteerism as a field of socio-pedagogical knowledge that combines the interdisciplinary theoretical and methodological foundations of the social phenomenon volunteering with the pedagogical technology of socio-cultural design.