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than thirty universities of the Russian Federation; among them was the Russian state social
University. The scope of professional activity called authorities on youth Affairs. The majority
of subjects was due to the directions of the Strategy of state youth policy [15; 16; 20]. Order
of the Ministry of education and science of Russia dated 12.07.2005 No. 197 removed from
the specialty status of the experiment and in the same year was adopted the State educational
standard of higher professional education in the specialty “Organization of work with
youth”.
For characteristics of scientific research activity organization
of work with young people
have been studied following regulatory legal acts:
1. Federal law of the Russian Federation of 29 December 2012 No. 273-FL “On education in
Russian Federation”;
2. Order of the Ministry of education and science of the Russian Federation (Ministry of
education and science) of 19 November 2013 No. 1259 Moscow “On approval of the Procedure
of organization and implementation of educational activity on educational programs of higher
education – programs of training of the teaching staff in graduate (postgraduate)”;
3. Order of the Ministry of education and science from 20.10.2015 No. 1173 “On
approval of
Federal state educational standard of higher education in the direction of training Organization
39.03.03 youth work (undergraduate level)”;
4. FSES of HE preparing 39.03.03 “Organization of work with young people (undergraduate
level)”, recommendations on the organization of educational process in high school (Annex
to the letter of the Ministry of education and science of the Russian Federation of 22 February
2006 No. 06-197).
Consider in more detail the FSES of HE preparing 39.03.03 “Organization of work with
young people (undergraduate level)”. The present Federal state educational standard
of higher education is a set of requirements, obligatory at realization of the main
professional educational programs of higher education – bachelor training in the direction
of 39.03.03 “Organization of work with youth” (further respectively – the undergraduate
program, preparation direction). The training program of bachelor in organization is a full-time,
part-time and correspondence forms of education. The term education in an undergraduate
program:
full-time education, including vacation granted after passing the state final
examination, regardless of applied educational technology, 4 years. The area of professional
activity of graduates who have completed the bachelor degree program includes: complete
and integrated solutions for the implementation of youth policy in the fields of labor, law,
politics, science and education, culture and sports, communication, health, interaction with
state and public structures, youth and children’s
public associations, employers. The objects
of professional activity of graduates who have completed the bachelor degree program are:
socio-cultural processes in the youth environment; the ways and forms of influence on youth;
Federal, regional Executive authorities, local governments implement the functions of the
state youth policy and youth work [5].
Types of professional activities that prepare graduates to enter the bachelor program:
– scientific research;
– organizational and management;
– analytical;
– social-design;
– organizational and mass;
–
production;
– socio-technological [5].
The undergraduate program consists of the following blocks: courses (modules), practice,
state certification. As a result of the development of the undergraduate program the graduate
should be formed of General cultural, General professional and professional competences [5].
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As was mentioned above, one of the types of professional activities that prepare graduates
to enter the bachelor degree program is research. In the Federal law “On science and state
scientific and technical policy” dated July 12, 1996 research activity is an activity aimed at
obtaining and applying new knowledge, including fundamental scientific research, applied
research [3].
In research of bachelor training in the direction of Organization of work with young people
includes:
– collection and systematization of scientific information on youth issues;
– preparation of reviews, abstracts, preparation of abstracts and bibliographies on youth
subjects;
– participation in seminars, scientific-practical conferences, trainings;
– participation in the preparation of empirical research on youth issues.
To reveal the essence of research activity at the University, a definition of the following basic
concepts: science, study, student, University.
Science is a special kind of cognitive activity aimed at obtaining,
validating and
systematization of objective knowledge about the world, man, society and knowledge, on the
basis of which the transformation of human reality.
Research is the search for new knowledge or systematic investigation to establish facts, but
in a more narrow sense is a process of learning something.
Student (Russian Federation) – all students of professional education institutions.
High school is an educational institution of higher professional education and carry out
research activities.
Federal Law “On education in the Russian Federation” States: “Higher education aims at
training highly skilled personnel in all basic directions of socially useful activity in accordance
with the needs of society and the state, the needs of the individual in intellectual, cultural
and
moral development, deepening and expansion of education,
scientific-pedagogical
qualification” [4].
Research work is a self-conducted study on the student, revealing his knowledge and ability
to apply them to solve specific practical problems. It should be logically complete in nature and
to demonstrate the ability of the learner to competently use a special terminology to make his
points clear, and to argue the proposals.
Objectives of research activities are:
– development of skills of independent research activities and their application to the
solution of actual practical tasks;
– analysis of existing domestic and foreign science theoretical approaches falling within the
scope of the performed study;
– conducting independent research on selected issues;
– demonstrate abilities to organize
and analyze the study data;
– inculcation of interest to scientific activity.
The main types of research activity of pupils are:
– the problem-reference work – an analytical comparison of data from different sources to
highlight the problems and design solutions;
– analytical and systematizing the work – the observation, recording, analysis, systematization
of quantitative and qualitative indicators of the studied processes and phenomena;
– diagnostic and prognostic work – study, follow-up, explanation, and prediction of
qualitative and quantitative
changes in the studied systems, phenomena, processes;
– inventive-rationalization work – the improvement of existing and design of new devices,
mechanisms, devices;
– experimental research – verifying assumptions about the acceptance or rejection of the
hypothesis experimentally-empirically;