Keyword: «volunteering»

The article describes new career guidance practices that have become widespread in foreign countries: internships, career parks, volunteering, mentoring, free year. The possibility of their spreading in our country is analyzed. The comparative results of a survey of young people in relation to participation in these practices are shown.

The content of student volunteers training to participate in healthy lifestyle programs that have an information and educational focus is considered in the article. The projected training results are determined. The importance of further support of the activities of healthy lifestyle volunteers is noted in order to increase the developed competencies.

This article addresses the issue of the adaptation of migrant children. The authors hypothesize that one effective way to facilitate the successful adaptation of migrant children is their participation in volunteer activities. This paper explores the role and impact of volunteering on the adaptation process of migrant children, as well as investigates the mechanisms through which volunteer activities contribute to the devel-opment of skills, values, and connections necessary for successful integration into a new society.

The relevance of the work is related to the fact that the involvement of teenagers in various types of volunteer activities for the benefit of their homeland is one of the priority tasks of bringing up the younger generation today. The purpose of the work was to study the relationship between the prevailing motives of volunteer activity of adolescents with the level of social activity and to identify the pedagogical conditions of their development. The main methodological approach determining the conceptual aspects of the study was the personal activity approach, which involves focusing on the upbringing of a teenager's personality in volunteer activities by increasing his motivation and social activity of participation in socially useful activities. The article shows that the involvement of a significant number of volunteers makes it possible to effectively implement national projects, hold large-scale events in different territories of our country; volunteer activity is an important factor in the education, socialization of young people, and prevention of deviant behavior. However, in some cases, volunteers are involved according to formal characteristics, without taking into account their motives, which affects the level of their social activity in volunteer projects. During the empirical study, standardized methods were used to study the motivation and social activity of adolescents. Results: it was found that in the studied group of adolescents who expressed a desire to participate in volunteer activities, the motivation to help other people, the motivation to achieve success without a predominance of the motivation to avoid failures, and the motivation of affiliation were sufficiently expressed. Indicators of social activity and orientation to humanistic norms of life activity had a high and average level. The correlation analysis revealed pronounced statistically significant relationships between the studied indicators of motivation and indicators of social activity in adolescent volunteers. The theoretical significance lies in the systematization, generalization, clarification of conceptual characteristics concerning the prevailing motivation of volunteer activities and their social activity, and the identification of pedagogical conditions for their development. The practical significance is determined by the possibility of using the developed diagnostic program, the obtained research results, and the proposed pedagogical conditions for studying, accounting and developing the motivation of adolescents in order to increase their social activity and participation in volunteer projects.

The article is devoted to the analysis of modern volunteer projects, as well as the impact of volunteer movements on the well-being of society. The author of the report on the mechanisms for implementing modern volunteer projects also determined the significance and form of the voluntary movement. The author analyzes the problems and trends in the development of the volunteer movement in modern Russia.