In our society all the universally recognized values and standards are very changable, but nevertheless, they are very important for improvement of a person‘s self -education. On the other hand, the interests of the individuals, their apprehension and the attitude towards the surrounding environment change greately. This is a very distinct fact observing the age phases of children. In this case the maturity of primary school students is of great importance because the pupils develop their self-training basic skills. Despite the original maturity of an individual, the surrounding environment influences and corrects the personality, because personality has to behave according to accepted cultural values. In such process while stimulating maturity of an individual and creating suitable positive condition for self – education of a personality, it is very important to controle sociocultural factors and construct education as favourable environment for personal maturity. This concerns the educational objects of the primary school students in the sport dancing groups, where the sociocultural skills are developed. For this reason the sociocultural factors of self- education of the first-fourth classes students actually should be concidered as a pedagogical problem that must be solved.

The object. Selfeducation of sociocultural factors in the sport dancing groups of students in the first-fourth forms.

The objective of the work. Is to reveal the sociocultural factors of self-education of the primary school students in the sport dancing groups.

The research revealed that for self education of the students the important role is played by extra curricular activities, the school conditions and activities in the sport dancing group. All these surounding deal with idiomatic sociocultural factors, such as skills of cooperation, family relations, acknowledgement, competitivity, respect, cultural and child‘s individual features. Each surrounding conditions separately influence the student‘s cultural skills and correct their self- development because the importance of sociocultural factors differs.

Distinctive surrounding environment of the skills that are practiced in these surroundings are concidered as a model for child‘s self-education in the sport dancing groups. So, motivating the self-education of the young students is very important to take into account the influence of the surrounding environments and the sociocultural factors prevailing in it.

Sociocultural factors should be estimated as self-educational factors because in their artistic activity students reveal their basic skills and experience and develop their skills according to the requirements of the surrounding environment. So dealing with artistic activities, sociocultural factors are transformed into student self-educational factors. Sociocultural factors as self-educational conception and the model make the sport dancing group a me.aningful and important way of education, which suits aiming to correct the child‘s cultural skills and their development course.

Raktažodžiai: sociocultural factors, in sport dancing groups, student