S. L. Talanov
Ph.D. (Candidate) of Sociological Sciences, 
a senior lecturer of Political and Social Sciences 
department of Yaroslavl State Pedagogical University
e-mail: talanov_sergei@mail.ru

Students’ educational necessities: in social dimension

One of the most important mechanisms of educational transformation to the sphere of the country strategic development is the forming of teens’ educational necessities. The author offers some events directed to the forming of the students’ adequate satisfied educational necessity.
The special sociological research was held with the students of Yaroslavl region as an object. The research held in the end of 2009 – the beginning of 2010 was made in the frames of quantitative strategy with the use of formalized methods of interrogation. The object of the research is the group of the 2nd – 4th  year students of resident and distant education of all the faculties in Yaroslavl State Pedagogical University (YSPU), Volgo-Vyatskaya Academy of Civil Service (VVACS), Rybinskaya State Aircraft Technological Academy (RSATA). 1213 students were interrogated.
The aim of the research – to find out the educational necessities of Yaroslavl region university students and the sources of their satisfaction.
The object of the research - the educational necessities and the sources of their satisfaction.
The students (YSPU – 86%, VVACS – 53%, RSATA – 81%) mentioned that their universities actively use new variants of lectures’ forms, directed to intensify the educational process and to develop personal skills of the students: Problem lecture, Visualization lecture, Lecture made by 2 people, Lecture with the mistakes planned beforehand, Lecture – press conference.
Most of the students have the negative opinion about the seminars held as expanded conversation previously planned.
It is necessary to continue forming the young generation educational necessities. In addition, it is necessary to use more active forms of teaching:
1.	Non-imitating:
a) Problem lectures, b) lectures made by 2 people, c) lecture with the mistakes planned beforehand, d) lecture – press conference, e) heuristic conversation, f) exploratory laboratory work, g) educational discussion, h) independent work with the bibliography, i) seminars, j) discussions. 
2, Imitating:
Playing:
a) Business game, b) pedagogical situations, c) pedagogical tasks, d) situation intiating different activities
Non-playing:
a) Group thinking activity, b) TITS work (Theory of Inventive Tasks Solving).
Using of these methods forms the development of the students’ creative professional thinking.
This information means that the management of the universities in Yaroslavl region tries to make the students’ preparation for the grown-up life more comprehensive and diversified, to disclose their abilities, try to give the students the additional knowledge, to expand their outlook, to develop the esthetic feelings and skills of any creativity.
The special importance is attached to the information seeking skills, working with the various types of information, explanation and estimating the facts and processes, students definition of the attitude to the different important facts and processes. Thereby, the priority is given not to adopt large amount of information and the ability to reproduce it but to get skills in analyzing, explanation, estimation the social processes, developing the students communicative culture skills.