Actualization of Leadership Potential of Socially Gifted Children (Experimental Approach)

The article deals with the social and psychological conditions of education of youth leaders among the socially gifted children–the issue which has been extremely important for Russian psychology since 1920-s when it was examined by V.M. Bekhterev, E.A. Arkin, A.S. Zaluzhny, S.O. Lozinsky, and others. Theoretical and applied aspects of education of children groups’ capable organizers were developed and implemented by A.S. Makarenko. The article discusses the results of the formative experiment on youth leaders training, which plays an important role in the life of children's society. The article describes a youth leadership research and formation strategy which has combined social gifts, small group as a subject of team-work, developing social environment and social education into one system.