PROFESSOR IN CHARGE OF A STUDENT GROUP AS A SOCIAL PRODUCER
The article is an attempt to give a theoretical assessment of the role a professor in charge of a student group fulfills as a social producer. In this case his main function is to assist the students’ professional skills formation during their course of study at a university. The article presents the analysis of such concepts as: «educational reflection» and «social practice». Modern requirements to the personality of the professor in charge of a student group are defined. The complex of problems of such professors’ activity as a social producer is offered, as well as the tasks and functions of his activity. It is stated that the professor in charge of a student group should stimulate the students’ ability to develop educational reflection and their skills of gaining experience of social practice.