Socio-Pedagogical Support of Child’s Upbringing in a Tutorial Family

Abstract

In modern Russia Centers of Social Assistance to Family and Children (CSAFC) are increasingly important in the field of psycho-pedagogical assistance and support to tutorial families bringing children-orphans up. The article analyzes long-term work experience (1998–2014 years) of these centers professionals on the implementation of socio-pedagogical support of child`s upbringing in a tutorial family technology. The authors have designed, substantiated and experimentally tested in real life a model of process of socio-pedagogical support of child`s upbringing in a tutorial family in some CSAFC. The article states that the model is implemented in stages (diagnostic stage, prognostic stage, adaptation and developmental stage, and result-final stage) and under some conditions (situational and environmental conditions, administrative and organizational, professional and personal conditions). The article analyzes the results of experimental work of socio-pedagogical support of child`s upbringing process in a tutorial family by CSAFC specialists. The results of a formative pedagogical experiment were: a) family climate improvement, positive emotional background strengthening in the relationship between caregivers and children, family trust improving; b) positive dynamics of type of family upbringing of a tutorial child (the authors have identified adaptive empirical type, constructive and pragmatic style, harmonious type); c) raising aspirations of tutors to cooperate with CSAFC specialists, to participate in collective creative activity together with a child on the basis of CSAFC; d) socio-pedagogical culture improving of tutors (the authors define the initial level, discrete level, sintonic level).

DOI: 10.5901/mjss.2015.v6n3s3p165