SPECIAL CHARACTERISTICS OF ADOLESCENCE IN THE SOCIAL AND CULTURAL SPACE OF SUPPLEMENTARY EDUCATION

This study considers in details special characteristics of adolescence in the process of information competence development within the social and cultural environment of supplementary education. The problem of the study is that in the process of development of information competence of the adolescents within the social and cultural space of supplementary education it is necessary to take into account the teenagers’ psychological and intellectual personality. The paper presents data both of the developmental psychology classics and contemporary authors indicating various phases of the adolescence course. The reliance on psychology and pedagogy allowed building the coherent and consistent concept that each age is characterized by a certain degree of development of intellectual qualities and psychological characteristics of an individual and results into necessity to take into account the age peculiarities while organizing educational process.