Abstract:

Although education is perceived as a process of getting knowledge, social adaptation of school students as one of communal skills that must not be underestimated. Social adaptation, or socialization, in modern Pedagogy, generally is considered as a process of instituting a person into social environment by understanding and acquiring social roles and skills. Socialization process in the context of school years is a long period of educating, upbringing, and forming a person. To outline the socialization from personal perspectives, the authors demarcate a special area of the socialization - a “social profile” of modern school students as a set of personal characteristics students have and also competencies and skills students have to develop. This perspective divides the term into two parts: determining modern school students traits, and defining areas of the zone of proximate social development. Outlining these two parts of socialization, the article considers them from perspectives of Museum Pedagogy, connecting museum environment and activities as a representational part of socio-cultural heritage. It is considered as one of factors that impacts socialization.

Although the range of museum activities could be resourceful for the process of socialization, it is hard to pursue without understanding personal traits of modern students. To delineate this intangible area, the article defines a specific term, “social profile” of school students, applied to Museum Pedagogy. The term includes different components that help museum educators and curators to understand where to apply resources to include museums into social environment. The article relates the social profile with museum activities that could be organized as special “social fields” in museum environment; and also describes possible areas of social application for museum visits.

Keywords:

Museum pedagogy, socio-cultural environment, social profile, zone of proximate social development, socialization, modern generation.