PSYCHOLOGICAL AND PEDAGOGICAL BASES OF FIRST ADAPTATION OF STUDENTS TO THE CONDITIONS OF THE CULTURAL AND EDUCATIONAL ENVIRONMENT OF THE UNIVERSITY
One of the most important tasks of higher education is the formation of students, as subjects of future professional activity, the ability and readiness for self-development throughout their life. The effectiveness of adaptation of ﬁ rstyear students to the educational process is the most important prerequisite for successful professional training. The main requirement for the mental organization of a freshman during the period of his adatation to the requirements of university realities is the need to have the ability to exist in a changed environment, the ability to self-improvement and self-development, the readiness not so much to formally adjust to the changed learning conditions, but to act as a subject of these changes. Their basic mechanism is ﬂ exibility as a systemic, integral quality of the individual, which provides him with the necessary basis for assessing himself and the situation and full processing of the system of relations based on the newly formed reality.