Abstract:

Youth work is a vital social and cultural phenomenon in modern civilization, institutionalized in various manners, and finally arriving to modern university directions of teaching. The interaction of academic resources and actual social challenges position the vocation of social youth work in key contexts of learning efficient social technologies that help to grow individuality in information era. All sensitive points of social management starting with motivation arrive to our research conducted in Ural Federal University, where department of youth work is developing for more than ten years. The unique aggregation of people on teaching and learning side of the institutionalized project gives rise to re-evaluation of social skills taught in the university. Our research relied on qualitative methodology (interviewing practicing experts in youth work alongside qualitative surveying of youth work students) with goal to elucidate principal personality aspects of a new education in the history of modern Russian universities. Intra-cultural interaction and effective personal communication in context of humanistic values are still waiting for roots in former soviet region. Our results bring in principle theoretical impact alongside unique phenomenological description of current moves in the field of teaching and learning social skills (personalizing the learning attitudes as viable motivation scenario for growing unique beginnings in youth work).

Keywords:

Youth work skills, social technologies, modern university students.