Abstract:
In the article the attention is paid to the necessity of forming social activities of the student youth as an important
goal of social education. The definition of the notion «social activity» is given, the types of social activity
are considered. The authors represented the results of the experimental pedagogical investigation on the
formation of the social activity and also there were revealed peculiarities of forming social activity of the student
youth in the activity of the student social associations. The object of the research was the student youth
of Astana - city, particularly, the students of pedagogical specialties of the Eurasian Humanities Institute. Diagnosis
at the ascertaining stage of the experiment shows a low level of the social activity of the students of
the experimental and control groups. The programme on the formation of social activity of the students of the
experimental group was realized at the formative stage of the experiment in the process of the activity of the
student associations. The effectiveness of the programme is confirmed by the dynamics of the results of all
three stages of the experimental-pedagogical work – ascertaining, formative and control.
