Kondratyev. [Social Psychology in Education]

Abstract:
The textbook is devoted to a meaningful and at the same time systematic analysis of the complex of socio-psychological problems faced by a psychologist who carries out his professional activity in a modern Russian educational institution of any type. At the same time, in addition to the general socio-psychological patterns and dependencies that he needs to take into account in his work within the educational space, the book focuses on the features and specifics of the processes of group formation and socio-personal development in the conditions of the most widespread categories of Russian educational institutions — from kindergartens to universities, from special schools for the particularly gifted children and adolescents to penal colonies for juvenile offenders. The text contains a description of the battery of basic techniques and methodological techniques necessary for diagnostic and research work with any type of student group, as well as a glossary of key socio-psychological terms for a psychologist who is professionalizing in the field of education. The book is addressed to teachers and students, practical psychologists and research psychologists who carry out their professional activities in educational institutions of various types, as well as to all those who are interested in the problems of social psychology of education.