The article traces the scientific path and analyzes the results of the scientific activities of S. V. Savchenko – Doctor of Pedagogical Sciences, Professor, Corresponding Member of the National Academy of Pedagogical Sciences of Ukraine, a well-known in Ukraine and abroad scholar and educator, Rector of Luhansk Taras Shevchenko National University. It is shown that in the center of scientific searches of the scholar always were the most actual problems, the study of which he began as one of the first. His Ph.D. thesis, defended in 1990, was at that time a bold attempt to study the activities of informal associations of students. The most important and complex issues related to the socialization of student youth in extracurricular activities was addressed in his doctoral dissertation (2004), which developed, substantiated and experimentally verified socio-pedagogical model of student socialization process. A number of scientific works, prepared in co-authorship, reflect the philosophical aspects of modern educational activity. A special place in the scientific and pedagogical heritage of S. V. Savchenko is occupied by the research of the problems of personality socialization in the conditions of hybrid war in the east of Ukraine. The subject of scientific study was little-studied processes that are denoted by the terms «aberrational socialization», «media socialization», «cybersocialization». The peculiarities of the content and technologies of students’ patriotic education as a factor of socialization are defined.
Scientific Path and Scientific Achievements of Serhiy Viktorovych Savchenko
