Developing soft skills of youth: regional experience

Abstract

This article is devoted to the problem of developing soft skills in the youth of Chelyabinsk region (the Russian Federation). The young generation requires possessing moral and ethical qualities and values, the leading tool for the formation of which is education. The aim of this study is to analyze and generalize the soft skills of young people in the region and develop educational technologies at the university aimed at developing these skills. The structural components of soft skills include: emotional intelligence (the ability to recognize and manage the feelings and emotions, the ability to understand and influence the emotions and feelings of other people, empathy, rapport); communicative skills (interpersonal skills, teamwork skills, collaboration, organizational skills, negotiation skills and public speaking skills). The system of developing soft skills of youth implemented at the university, implies: 1) the inclusion of students into the activities of volunteer organizations and public associations; 2) implementation of social activities at the university; 3) modeling of extreme pedagogical situations in the educational process of the university.