ORGANIZATION OF SOCIAL AND PEDAGOGICAL SUPPORT FOR ORPHANS IN FOSTER CARE FAMILIES

This article reveals the study relevance of the socio-pedagogical support for orphans in foster care families’ problem, reveals the essence of a comprehensive axiological approach as a theoretical and methodological strategy for research, describes the leading concepts: "foster care," "socio-pedagogical support." The technique that activates social and pedagogical support for orphans in foster care families has become the goal of experimental work, which has a theoretical justification. During the experiment, such tasks were solved: checking the effectiveness of socio-pedagogical support for orphans in foster care families by experimental means; processing, analysis and interpretation of the obtained experimental results; shows the statistical fidelity of the hypothesis put forward. Experimental work consisted of the stating, forming, control stages of the experiment, each of which solved certain tasks to confirm the purpose of the study. Two groups were formed: one experimental and one control groups. (EG – 1, EG – 2, CG). Diagnosis was carried out before placement in the family, in the first days and six months later. In EG-1, the methodology was partially tested, in EG-2 the methodology that activates social and pedagogical support for orphans in the foster care family was fully implemented, in the CG – social and pedagogical support was carried out standard according to basic requirements. Comparison of the results obtained at the CG and EG concluded that the organization of socio-pedagogical support gave a number of positive results in foster care families orphans in terms of the main indicators of adaptation.