DIGITAL NARRATIVES AS TOOLS FOR INVOLVING GRADUATE STUDENTS IN EDUCATIONAL FORMAL AND NON-FORMAL ACTIVITIES

Abstract

The article presents an analytical view of the potential of digital narratives as tools for attracting higher education students to educational activities. It was determined that the educational activity is interpreted as a socially oriented educational activity of the educational institution, which thoroughly combines the cultural development of the students of education, based on the values of equality, patriotism, respect, tolerance, diversity, and the formation of national identity. On the basis of a complex analysis, the essence, content and didactic characteristics of digital narratives are revealed. It is noted that narrative discourse plays an important role in the development of educational competence of future teachers. The article briefly characterizes the applied aspects of the use of digital narratives as mechanisms for involving student youth in educational non-formal micro-projects and events (on the example of the Communal Institution of Higher Education “Lutsk Pedagogical College” of the Volyn Regional Council). The source base for the analysis was digital texts, presentations, stories posted on blogs (pages in social networks) of students as reflections on their participation in educational activities. It was noted that the integrative result of the involvement of student youth in educational work should be the formation of a holistic professional outlook based on the values of equality, patriotism, respect, tolerance, and diversity. A teacher of the New Ukrainian School is not only a competent specialist, but above all a creative and spiritually mature person, free and socially active. Modernization of the professional training of a new generation of teachers, able to respond flexibly to the challenges of war and post-war society, should be based primarily on the educational mission of teachers in the formation of the national identity of conscious members of civil society. Strengthening the educational component in the content and technologies of pedagogical education should become a valuable safeguard and counter to the attempts of the Russian Federation to destroy Ukrainian statehood and national identity, to devalue our culture.