SOCIO-PEDAGOGICAL CONDITIONS OF CONFLICT PREVENTION AMONG STUDENT YOUTH IN EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS

Abstract

Prevention of conflicts among students in educational institutions is extremely relevant and essential, especially in times of war. The article focuses on the fact that conflicts are an integral part of our lives, and in general secondary education institutions they have their own characteristics and specifics of emergence, development and resolution. The author points out the complexity of resolving a pedagogical conflict, which is due to the different ages of its participants, the difference in life experience of both teachers and students, especially those who have moved from the war zone, excessive emotionality of students, and the presence of other persons at the time of its resolution. In educational institutions, conflicts arise in the system of ‘student – student’, ‘teacher – student’, ‘parents – student’. The peculiarities of preventing conflicts in the student community depend on understanding the causes, types and factors that have acquired specific content during the war. The article identifies and characterises the content of the main causes of conflicts in the student environment, including: socio-psychological, educational and training, personal and interpersonal. Consequently, the author presents his own definition of the concept of ‘conflict prevention among student youth’, which is considered as a set of measures carried out by an educational institution aimed at preventing and minimising the occurrence of conflicts, promoting their constructive resolution in the educational environment and implemented through various instruments of social, legal, pedagogical and psychological influence. Effective forms and methods of conflict prevention among student youth include educational and awareness-raising programmes, trainings with role-playing games, discussions, practical exercises, conversations, involvement of parents and the community in this process, involvement of students in creative activities, counselling, etc. The socio-pedagogical conditions for the prevention of conflicts among student youth in an educational institution have been determined: creation of a safe and comfortable educational environment; forming skills of conflict-free interaction of all participants of the educational process; application of restorative practices of constructive conflict resolution; implementation of tutoring support in an educational institution.