Problems of Social Adaptation of Bachelor's Degree Students of Pedagogical Field under the Conditions of examine in Agrarian University

Problem and objective. Nowadays, in the practice of training of professional educational organizations there is a discrepancy between the methods of training acceptable at the basic school and the university, which complicates the process of adaptation of students to the new conditions. The social status of a "student", a large amount of information, lack of skills of independent work, reduced control over educational activities by both parents and teachers, requires the student to mobilize available resources and opportunities for successful adaptation in the university. At this stage of personal development, various forms of disadaptation behavior may appear Training of students of pedagogical orientation in the walls of a non-core university is associated with additional problems, which, above all, consist in the emerging contradictions between the humanitarian and non-humanitarian orientation of the learning process. The purpose of the research presented in the paper is to analyze the process of adaptation of bachelor students of pedagogical field to the conditions of training in an agrarian university and to determine the main directions of its improvement. Proposed Methodology. Methodological grounds for the study of the problem of social adaptation of bachelor students of pedagogical field in a non-core university were: analysis; comparison; typologization of theoretical sources; diagnostic methods that allowed to carry out theoretical and methodological substantiation of the essence and specificity of adaptation of students to training in a non-core university. The sociological toolkit of the questionnaire survey included the test methodology of K. Rogers and R. Diamond, formulas of Rylon, Spearman-Brown, Cronbach. For processing the answers of respondents (n = 210) the methods of mathematical statistics - correlation and cluster types of analysis - were used Results. The authors have revealed general and specific features of the adaptation process of students of pedagogical field in the conditions of training of non-core higher education institution; comparative analysis of social-psychological and social-professional adaptation of students has been carried out; the most acute problems and difficulties of social-professional adaptation have been revealed; criteria and levels of adaptation of students of pedagogical orientation have been formed; proposals on improvement of the process of adaptation of students of pedagogical orientation have been developed and applied in practice. Conclusion. The conducted research allowed to get a comprehensive idea about the organization of the adaptation process of future teachers to the conditions of training in a noncore higher education institution. The materials of the study can be used in the management of the adaptation process in higher education, including the educational and leisure activities of curators of student groups, teachers, psychologists and educators in dormitories.