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http://dx.doi.org/10.15293/1813-4718.2206.05
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374+379.8
Deich Boris Arkad’evich
Кандидат педагогических наук, Cand. Sci. (Pedag.), Аssoc. Prof., Head of the theory and methodology of educational systems department, Novosibirsk State Pedagogical University, deich67@mail.ru, Novosibirsk
Kiseleva Elena Vasilievna
Доктор педагогических наук, Dr. Sci. (Pedag.), Professor of the Department of Pedagogy and Psychology in the Institute of History, Humanities and Social Education, Novosibirsk state pedagogical university, elena_mig@mail.ru, Novosibirsk

The Potential of a Children's Health Camp in the Personal birth of a Counselor

Abstract: 
The article was prepared based on the results of a study conducted in children’s health camps in 2022. The article analyzes how the professional activity of a children’s health camp counselor affects the development of a number of personal qualities and abilities in young people. The study was conducted by the method of questioning, in which counselors from four regions of the Russian Federation took part (Novosibirsk region, Perm region, Rostov region, Tyumen region). The results of the study are confirmed by a large sample - more than four hundred and fifty counselors working in children’s health camps on the second and third shifts took part in the survey. The purpose of the article is to analyze the possibilities of a counselor in the personal development of young people - counselors of children’s health camps. Methodology and research methods. The methodological basis of this study includes: an approach to education as a process of creating favorable conditions for personal development; approaches underlying humanitarian, social, pedagogical expertise; ideas reflecting positional, humanistic, event-based approaches. The main research methods used to solve the set tasks and achieve the goal were analysis and synthesis, as well as empirical methods - a sociological survey, questionnaires via the Internet. The conclusion of the article presents the conclusions that professional activity as a counselor of a children’s health camp contributes to the development in young people of such groups of qualities as organizational, communicative, professional and humanistic attitude. The personal development of counselors is facilitated by both preliminary training at the schools of counselors of children’s health camps and within the framework of special disciplines in universities and colleges related to teacher education, as well as working conditions in a children’s health camp: almost round-the-clock interaction with children, responsibility for their life and health, responsibility for the quality of the organization of their recreation and recovery, the desire to make it interesting and creative, and much more. In the process of work, the relevant qualities are formed and developed, which is another effect of the activities of the children’s health camp.
Keywords: 
counselor, children’s health camp, personal development
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