PSYCHOLOGICAL AND PEDAGOGICAL SUPPORT OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF SOCIAL COMPETENCE OF YOUNGER STUDENTS IN THE EDUCATIONAL PROCESS OF PRIMARY SCHOOL

Abstract

The article substantiates the relevance and provides a theoretical analysis of the problem of developing the social competence of younger students in a digital society. The necessity of organizing joint work of a social pedagogue, a teacher-psychologist, primary school teachers, parents of first-graders and students to solve problems of interpersonal communicative interaction of younger schoolchildren is substantiated. The diagnostics of the levels of development of social competence of junior schoolchildren and the analysis of experimental work on the implementation of the proposed program, which contributes to the development of social competence of junior schoolchildren by creating a psychologically comfortable educational environment and conditions for the development of social competence in the educational process of primary school based on the effective interaction of a social teacher, a teacher-psychologist, are presented. Results of the formative experiment based on results of diagnostics show the effectiveness of the implementation of the developed program. The presented material allows concluding that it is necessary and expedient for teachers to develop the social competence of younger students in the educational process of primary school in order to solve problems of interpersonal communicative interaction.