SOCIO-PEDAGOGICAL SUPPORT FOR PROFESSIONAL CHOICE OF STUDENTS OF SPECIAL (CORRECTIONAL) BOARDING SCHOOLS OF TYPE 8
In many countries, creating conditions for professional education and employment of persons with disabilities is an important and socially signiﬁcant task. In present-day Russia, special (correctional) boarding schools aim to provide socio-pedagogical support for professional self-identiﬁcation of their students, namely children with mental retardation. The paper deals with various approaches to the phenomenon of professional choice. The authors propose their understanding of factors that positively inﬂuence the professional choice of graduates of boarding schools of type 8. They also consider the content and methodology of supporting the professional choice of students with disabilities. Special attention is paid to those conditions, the implementation of which will lead to the eﬃciency of social and pedagogical support in the professional choice of graduates of boarding schools. The results of the study can be applied in modernisation of social and pedagogical practices as well as in vocational work in special (correctional) boarding schools.