April 14 at the Faculty of Social Pedagogy and Psychology II ZNU Started 2nd tour of All-Ukrainian Students' Olympiad in "Pedagogical Education" in the direction of "Social pedagogics", which will last until April 16.
Olympiad was attended by 30 students from different parts of our country, who provided 23 pedagogical universities of Ukraine. Guests of our university visited the Khortytsya island and architectural monuments of Zaporizhzhya, and acquainted with the history of Zaporizhzhya National University.
Contest is held annually in order to identify, select and support gifted students, the development and implementation abilities of students, to stimulate creative work of students and academic teaching staff, improving the quality of training, activating teaching and studying of students, systematic improvement of the educational process, the formation of teams for international competitions. At that time Zaporizhzhya Pedagogical University first launched the contest on pedagogics in 1996.
During the official opening of the event welcomed all participants and wished success in the preparation of competitive challenges the Rector of ZNU Mykola Frolov and Dean of the Faculty of Social Pedagogics and Psychology of ZNU, Ph.D. in Pedagogical Sciences, associate professor of Social Pedagogics Department Olha Ponomarenko.
In general, All-Ukrainian Students' Olympiad in "Social Pedagogics" is held as individual championship in the form of massive ocular event of future social workers. It consists of 3 rounds: round 1 – practical - presentation video (solving urgent social problems); round 2 – research - public defense of their own research the actual problem of social pedagogics (using modern information technologies); round 3 – theoretical - testing, terminology dictation, solve problem situations.
Contest participants are offered tasks that are based on advances in social and educational activities today. Their solution requires not only knowledge of programmatic educational material, but also supports a total psycho-pedagogical culture, knowledge of the legal and regulatory framework for social pedagogics, pedagogical skills of future professionals.
To participate in the Olympiad were invited by 2 students winning the first stage with each university who participated in this contest.
As for the topic assignments and research students, it was very varied and dealt with important and pressing social issues, including: offense among children and adolescents, social and educational protection of children and young people, HIV prevention among young people, social orphanhood, violence among students , family violence, violence against children, prevention of individual victim, professional self-organizing meaningful leisure activities for children and youth, integration of young people with disabilities in society and human trafficking.
In their studies, students must demonstrate knowledge of social and pedagogical techniques, knowledge with latest developments in this field, theoretical concepts and approaches foreign and national scientific schools of social work and social pedagogics, social and innovative teaching technologies, best practices.
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