Socio-pedagogical reality is a really existing social environment of people's life, which has special phenomena, patterns and mechanisms that have a pedagogical - educational, enlightening, teaching, developing - influence on a person, small groups and communities. This is Wednesday:
• in communities of people of different scales - society as a whole, its social communities (macrogroups - classes, social strata, nations, nationalities, professional communities, the population of regions, etc.), large groups (meso groups - the population of a city, district, staff of large institutions, enterprises, military units, corporations, etc.), small groups (communities) that form the closest social environment for a person (family, study group, group of friends, labor brigade, military unit, etc.) and microgroups (often allocated in small groups and something especially close two to five people - friends who have some common interest, spend leisure time together, people from the same area, members of a group of the same nationality, etc.); in their life there is always an element of pedagogy and pedagogical influence both on the persons included in them and on those belonging to other groups;
• with the presence in it of objects, phenomena and factors of a pedagogical nature and direct pedagogical purpose (this includes the structures of administrative pedagogical, scientific, education, advanced training, teaching staff, family services, as well as institutes of social psychologists, welfare institutions, public pedagogical groups, pedagogical publications, etc.);
• possessing phenomena, factors, organizations, personnel and activities of a non-pedagogical nature that do not have a direct pedagogical purpose (various organizations of state and municipal administration, human rights, law enforcement, industrial, commercial, housing, services, transport, leisure, service, communication, information, etc. .p.), but influencing pedagogical character both on their staff and on the population;
• creating objective conditions for the life of people, containing the energy of socio-pedagogical influences and influences on them, acting inevitably and constantly, causing certain pedagogical changes;
• activating the learning mechanism, which consists in the spontaneous accustoming of people to relatively long-lasting conditions of life.
In their lives, people intersect with many socio-pedagogical influences of the environment and, passing through the "family school", "courtyard school", "school school", "leisure school", "labor school", "survival school", etc., united in "School of life", they learn a lot that they were not taught or not taught. These are schools of real life, its difficulties, feelings, functioning constantly - and this is their strength.
The socio-pedagogical reality of the "school of life" brings effective socio-pedagogical results that complement and change, and often significantly, and sometimes decisively, what was given to people in the form of upbringing, education, training, development in schools, institutes and other pedagogical institutions. These results in a person's personality are found in the form:
• educational - political and moral convictions, attitude to the Motherland, its history, prospects, government agencies, social institutions, events, professions, work, religions, different social groups of the population, nationalities; contribute to attitudes towards work, social and cultural values; affect interests, inclinations, aesthetic views and tastes; activate and change the motives of behavior, habits, adherence to certain traditions, customs, ways of spending leisure time; push to certain decisions and actions;
• educational - the emerging picture of the world in the mind, outlook, understanding of what is really happening in society and its various spheres of events and processes, attitude to education and the need to increase it, awareness in some areas of knowledge, etc .;
• trainers - enrichment of knowledge on various issues of life practice, activity and behavior; contribution to professionalism; understanding the need to master new professions; the formation of household and skills and abilities, etc.;
• developing - changes in the system of needs, interests, habits, abilities, intelligence, culture, morality, health, etc.
If we talk about groups, then they are even more dependent on the conditions and experience of joint life. Socio-pedagogical changes can not always be assessed as positive, contributing to the personal growth of the individual and the success of the activities of groups and the conditions in them. It is said that new generations enter life through school. This is true, but life can cross out a lot of what is given by the school, and social pedagogy allows us to understand this and take measures to increase the effectiveness of personality formation in both students and adults. It is not only an "addition" to the subject and tasks of pedagogy, but also a new look at the traditional "school" pedagogy and the work of educational institutions in fundamentally new social conditions of people's life.