Keyword: «self-development of the personality»

Overcoming the crisis in education and establishment of a new educational system requires restoration of higher school education system in a new status, in particular, in questions of educational work with students of higher education institutions during the summer period. Summer vacation makes a considerable part of annual volume of students’ free time, but sometimes young people cannot organize their rest properly. This aspect is of undoubted interest in connection with close attention of researchers to the problems of students’ personal development, youth leisure and social activity in general. The effective organization of students’ summer vacation is complicated now by a number of contradictions between: traditional forms of summer vacation organization and expectations of modern students; the need to establish informal communication between students and teaching staff of the camp, to organize leisure activities based on new technologies, including information ones, and insufficient pedagogical support of such a work; high demands of students to the organization of summer vacation and limitation of material resources for their realization. The research objective consists in identification of effective forms of educational work with University students during the summer period in the conditions of the sports camp. The leading approaches to the problem research are: system, personal, activity-oriented and culturological ones. The main results of the research may be considered in the analysis of educational environment of higher education institutions, they make a certain contribution to development of the theory and practice of social activity, leisure pedagogics, provide useful material for the experts organizing summer vacation of higher school students. The theoretical importance of article is due to the analysis of the organization of educational work with students of higher education institutions during the summer period, characteristics of various forms of work and methodological recommendations concerning preparation and conducting summer health-improving campaign in the sports camp for students. The practical importance of work is determined by the presented experience of educational work with students of higher education institutions during the summer period in the sports camp “Ivushka”.