Content and means of forming psychologically comfortable and safe environment in extracurricular activities and in additional education

Abstract

This article discusses the issues of content and organizational formats of extracurricular activities of students in the context of providing psychologically comfortable and safe environment. Most of the tools proposed in the article for the formation of psychologically comfortable and safe environment are universal, both for extracurricular activities and for additional education of children. However, the peculiarities of the legal regulation of extracurricular activities and additional education, as well as slightly different targets for these types of activities, determine the variability of their content. The rural school today is a place of education for children with different educational needs and with various socio-stratification features. These are children with disabilities, students who find themselves in a difficult life situation, teenagers with deviant behavior, gifted children. Each of these children should feel comfortable and safe, so taking into account their individual needs is the most important task. The correct choice of the content and means of forming psychologically comfortable and safe environment largely determines the effectiveness of the processes of organizing extracurricular activities and additional education of students. Participants of the discussion from five regions of the Russian Federation as a result of a brainstorming session proposed a number of leading ideas that in modern conditions can be used as the basis for solving the problems of forming psychologically comfortable and safe environment in extracurricular activities and in conditions of additional education in rural school. Each of the identified ideas can be implemented through a set of pedagogical tools proposed by the participants of the problem group. The article includes the substantiation of the leading ideas that ensure the solution of the tasks assigned to the problem group, the relevance of the problem under study, as well as a brief description of possible means that ensure the formation of psychologically comfortable and safe environment within the framework of extracurricular activities and in additional education.