THEORETICAL ASPECTS OF STUDYING THE VOLUNTEER MOVEMENT IN UKRAINE

Abstract

The article highlights the development of the theoretical aspects of the implementation of the volunteer movement. It is stated that the volunteer movement represents social work that contributes to the improvement of the quality of life of an individual, personal growth, self-realization, successful socialization, satisfaction of human needs, helps to acquire skills of mutual assistance and mutual support, and has a socially useful character. The role of the volunteer movement in the process of forming a communication environment for persons with psychophysical developmental disorders is determined. Today, the volunteer movement is a social phenomenon that develops under the influence of external and internal factors. Among the external ones are social problems with an increase in the categories of vulnerable categories of citizens, emergency situations, natural disasters, military and political events from 2014 to the present, and the internal ones include patriotism, moral aspirations, concern for social issues, the desire to be useful, etc. Volunteering is an interdisciplinary scientific problem, its subject of research at the intersection of various fields of knowledge: philosophy, sociology, political science, law, psychology, pedagogy, social work. Let's try to analyze the state of research on the development of the volunteer movement in Ukraine. The purpose of the article is to analyze scientific works on the development of volunteering in Ukraine as a prerequisite for the professionalization of social work. The analysis of scientific works: dissertation studies, monographs, analytical reports, sociological surveys, scientific articles in periodicals – allowed us to generalize that the experience of volunteering is the subject of research in a wide field of scientific knowledge, it is motivated to focus attention on the development of the volunteer movement in the field of social work. As the list of categories that are in difficult life circumstances expands, the best foreign experience is implemented, and exemplary volunteer practices are developed both at the local and national levels.