"EDUCATIONAL NEEDS": THEORETICAL ANALYSIS OF DEFINITION
Theoretical analysis of the definition "educational needs" have been carried out (within pedagogical, social and psychological aspects) via defining such categories as "need", "personal educational need". The need of these approaches composition while studying educational needs is emphasized especially. As theoretical knowledge about the needs is basical in personal theory the study of educational needs lets us analyze subject factors, causing personal activity, describe features of its educational activity, study the most crucial input and conditions of its inclusion in the educational environment, track the formation of mechanisms that regulate the processes of personality functioning and development in the field of education and beyond. On the basis of theoretical analysis it can be stated that raising the educational needs not only possible, but is one of the central factors of personality formation.