THEORETICAL ANALYSIS OF THE PROBLEM OF MONITORING SOCIAL EXPECTATIONS OF STUDENTS WITH SPECIAL EDUCATIONAL NEEDS

Abstract

The article highlights the results of a theoretical analysis of the problem of social expectations of students with special educational needs. The difficult socio-economic circumstances of life in Ukraine caused by the consequences of the pandemic and the war actualize the problems of medical, economic, social and psychological-methodological provision of reintegration and adaptation of youth with special needs as a socially vulnerable population group. At the same time, it is important to study the own social expectations of students with special needs and their transformations in modern conditions for the effectiveness of using technologies of socio-pedagogical support and successful integration.
The purpose of the article is to analyse the problem of social expectations of youth with special educational needs, to define their structure and characteristics among students of boarding and inclusive educational institutions, to determine the technologies of social-pedagogical support and success of the integration processes of entering of students with special needs according to the modern concepts of personality socialization.
To implement the outlined tasks, the following general research methods were used: theoretical analysis and synthesis to define the social expectations of youth and methods of their research, the structure of the social and educational environment for the formation of social expectations; comparison in order to determine the features of social expectations of students with special educational needs in the conditions of boarding and inclusive educational institutions and their peers without developmental disorders; modelling in order to determine and substantiate the main strategies of socio-pedagogical support of students with special educational needs for successful social integration.
According to the results of the theoretical research, the main approaches to defining the definition of “social expectations” from the point of view of psychology, sociology, and social pedagogy are outlined. The main functions and structure of social expectations, the tasks and methods of monitoring studies of social expectations of young people, in particular with special educational needs in modern conditions, are defined. The aspects and results of the latest domestic and foreign research on the social expectations of young people are considered. A model for monitoring social expectations of youth with disabilities is proposed.
The directions of future research are to define methods and experimentally verify the proposed model for monitoring social expectations of youth with disabilities; to indicate the impact of learning conditions (inclusive, boarding) on the formation of students’ social expectations; to substantiate the directions of socio-pedagogical support of students with special educational needs in the conditions of distance learning in boarding and inclusive educational institutions, to determine the strategies to overcome stigmatization and successful social integration of youth with disabilities.