Nataliya Gafyrova

Introduction of significant changes in terms of positions on upbringing and educational work to the Federal Law "On Education in the Russian Federation" dated December 29, 2012 No. 273-FL in 2020 actualize mass educational work, including vocational education. Such significant changes at the government level are practically the first massive ones since the 90s, taking into account the Law on Education, which was in force in those years, in which there were no positions on upbringing. The article provides an analysis of the domestic and foreign experience of student self-government, reveals the main factors of motivating the younger generation for voluntary activities of the head of the student association. From the point of view of psychology and pedagogy of vocational education, educational work at a university differs significantly from the well-known approaches and practices in school education. One of the differences is the work of student associations as subjects of such activities. With a large practice of university work with student associations, this activity in universities is not always effective in the upbringing aspect. The student association itself often does not have information and competences for building its activity in a modern university, including its target, content and technological positions. The work of the authors is aimed at identifying the grounds for designing the effective activity of a student association at a university in order to develop the subjective position of students in relation to the university and their own educational activity. The article proposes the ideas for the effective work of the student association, its content and characteristics. The formation of the student's subjective position in relation to their own education is presented by the authors as one of the ideas for the work of such an association. The application of the presented ideas in the practice of modern upbringing work of the university contributes to the achievement of mutual satisfaction of the interests of the university and members of student associations. The methodological basis of the work is the systemic, axiological, activity-oriented, competence-based approaches. The significance of the ideas presented lies in the possibility of their practical application in the work of student associations.