On Problem of Professional Training of Social Workers within the Framework of Higher Education

Abstract

The issue of training of social workers in higher education is considered. The relevance of the research is caused by changes of socio-economic and technological nature, taking place in modern society, implying the training of specialists of higher level: “multi-functional,” meeting international standards of training professionals to implement certain urgent tasks. Professionalization refers to the process of improving a person’s knowledge, skills and abilities in the context of an activity that involves the presence of a certain subject represented in the culture of a given society, and ways of working with it. The authors rely on the indicators of the level of professional training offered by Yu. P. Povarenkov: professional effectiveness, professional identity and professional maturity. The novelty of the research lies in destinguishing three levels of “co-existence essence” of professional training of social professionals: adaptive-orientational, subject-effective and innovative-creative. The authors dwell on the position, according to which the student evolves as a subject of activity only in certain educational conditions: motivating environment of the educational institution as a factor contributing to the active development of new knowledge, skills and abilities; well-organized training and education aimed at increasing the effectiveness of students and teachers; tracking the dynamics of creative development of students, their improvement in personal and professional relationships.

Keywords

• professional training
• specialist of social profile
• social essence of professional training of specialists
• professional and educational space