Development of Social Creativity of Future Culture Managers

Abstract

The article presents the results of instituting the future culture managers’ social creativity development technology in the extracurricular activities of a higher education institution. The technology was developed based on social-educational paradigm of social pedagogy and a verified array of tools was used to diagnose its efficiency. According to the aim, it was defined that social creativity of future culture managers is an active focus of students of said field on mastering worldwide professional experience for socially significant transformation of contemporary culture through professional sociocultural activities. Criteria and indices of future culture managers’ social creativity were substantiated, among which are in particular interest and value attitude towards professional civic life, motivation for personal and professional self-improvement in the culture of global information society, creation of novel sociocultural activity models under conditions of information society’s virtual culture, active and responsible participation in their realization. Effectiveness of the social-pedagogical activities technology, which provides for taking into account novel sociocultural conditions of information society in organizing the extracurricular field of higher education institution, coordinating agents of social-pedagogical activities for developing students’ social creativity via creation of proactive performance center and initiative group, and activation of student self-governance in self-improvement of future culture managers’ social creativity, was proven. Recommendations for further utilization of the technology were developed, among which is the necessity for universities to create favorable social-educational conditions for development and assertion of democratic social values of contemporary students, which will influence their social creativity’s development vector.