Use of Innovative Technologies in Training of Future Social Workers

Abstract

The article considers the actual problem of using the innovative technologies during the educational process in higher education institutions for training of future social workers. Professionalism in the activities of a social worker is in constant motion. Actions that take place in a society require constant professional changes in methods and technologies of social work. Social work is inseparable from society as a whole and is aimed at the population. Designing in social work is a constructive, complex, creative activity, the essence of which is in advanced reflection of reality in order to transform the personality of oneself, own life situation and the surrounding world with the help of a social worker. Social work refers to the category of innovative, creative technologies, because it involves a change of reality. It is based on the existing life situation, which can be unified, mastered and refined. A social worker is the initiator of innovation, the purpose of which is to create, modernize or maintain in a changed environment material or spiritual value of people, recognized as positive in its social value.