Bekzhigitova Z.S., Berkun Darya, Yarmoshevich Olga, Fedoseev Sergey, ChuchugovaNadezhda

 

Karaganada State university named after E.A. Buketov

 

The problems of volunteering and charity as culture-historical tradition of social-pedagogical activities

Theory and practice of social pedagogic connected with culture-historical, ethnographic traditions and nation features. It depends on social-economical national development, it based on religious and moral-ethic views about people and human values.

Speaking of social pedagogy as a practice area, it is necessary to provide a clear demarcation between official social pedagogic as professional activity and real social pedagogical work, consists of work with people, who need in helps.

Until quite recently, there was not social pedagogic in our country as profession, which requires specialist training, who can render knowledgeable assistance to people, who need in social, pedagogical and moral-psychological help. Real activity on render assistance to lack-all in our country has deep historical roots. It has to be said in fairness, throughout the development of the human civilization, every society faced a problem   in relation to people, who could not support life themselves. There are children, old people, illness people and etc. The relationto such people in different societies and countries at different stages of their development was different - from the physical destruction of disabled and weak peopleto fully integrate them into society. It depended on axiological positions of this society.

Charity is the universal human value, one of the most important attribute of civil society. Charity let service its interests direct to the society, without mediation of state. Charity provides redistribution of income from more rich to the poorest people in a short way and short time. Charity is more and more becomes an instrument, with the help of society satisfy its main social, human needs. Activity of charity can be in the following aims:

·       Social support and protect people, including improvement of financial situations needy social help to unemployment people, disable and others, who in the force of their physical or intellectual qualities, and other circumstances they are not able to realize their rights and law interests themselves.

·       To prepare people to overcome natural disaster, ecological, industrial or another catastrophe, accident.

·       To help suffer people in the result of natural disaster, ecological, industrial and other catastrophe, social, national, religious conflicts, victims of repression, refugees and force immigrants.

·       To promote strengthening peace friendship and agreement between nations, prevent social, national and religious conflicts.

·       To promote to protect of motherhood, childhood and paternity.

·       To promote activity in the education, science, culture, art, study, spiritual development of person.

·       To promote in healthy life style of people, and propaganda of healthy life style; improvement of moral-psychological condition of people;

·       To promote activity of physical training and in sport;

·       To guard of environmental protection and animal protection;

·       To guard and preserve buildings, objects and territories which have historical, cultural and natural guard meaning and places of burial.

Religious subject of voluntary unpaid labour was formed a very long time in Kazakhstan is associated mostly with Islam and Christianity. Religious principles are based on the altruism of the most socially responsible members of society. Altruism is a person's ability to put the welfare of others above our own. O. Kont considered development of an altruistic consciousness "is a sign of a civilized society, committed to the positive values."

Volunteering as a social phenomenon is inextricably linked with the history of the development of society; it has its own historical background and civilizational development experience. History of the volunteer movement it is difficult to trace, as previously nobody recorded such actions. But in the world history of mankind has there been such a society, which would have been alien to the idea of voluntary and disinterested assistance. "Volunteering as an idea of social service is almost as old as the concept of society. In society there were always people for whom the way of self-realization, self-improvement, connection and communication with other people was work for the benefit of the community in which this person was born and/or live." It should be noted that religion has always been a powerful catalyst to engage in volunteer work, educating people in an altruistic consciousness, thus motivated to engage in volunteering.

International practice recognized that volunteer activities are most effectively implemented in an organized form in the nonprofit sector through permanent volunteers. This form of operation of volunteerism is a common practice for countries in Western Europe and the USA but relatively new phenomenon for Kazakhstan and Russia.

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