Methodological approaches to the development of social creative students at the university

The article stresses the need for the development of social creativity among future social educators, the components of the structure of the social educators’ activities. The essence of the term “creativity” and its components are emphasized. The article points out the need to integrate various studies in the field of the development of social creativity of students and the problem of the methodological foundations of the social creativity development (acmeological, competency-based, information-communicative and cybernetic).