PRACTICE-ORIENTED TRAINING OF SOCIAL EDUCATORS AT THE UNIVERSITY: DIFFICULTIES OF PROFESSIONAL AND PERSONAL FORMATION

Abstract

The article is concerned with the problem of specialists training for the socio-pedagogical sphere. One of the modern technologies, providing high-quality training of future specialists, is practice-oriented learning, which involves the formation of personal and professional competencies of the future social educator, contributing to the proper level of implementation of professional tasks, set before social educator as a specialist. The article substantiates the relevance of practice-oriented learning of future social educators, its essence and conditions of implementation are revealed. The authors analyzed the scientific and pedagogical literature on the application of a practice-oriented approach in the system of higher education and the problems of professional development of future specialists. The article presents the results of a student survey that determined the presence or absence of the necessary qualities of a future social pedagogue as a person and a professional and the difficulties of professional and personal development identified on their basis. This survey is one of the qualitative and quantitative methods that will be conducted during the research. It helped to identify the presence and formation of personal qualities of future social educators at the pre-university and primary university stages of professional education. The analysis of the interview results helps to determine the necessary personality qualities, the development of which contributes to the successful realization of professional abilities. The difficulties that students face when entering the profession and related to the lack of formation of certain personal and professional qualities and competencies were identified.

The article is concerned with the problem of specialists training for the socio-pedagogical sphere. One of the modern technologies, providing high-quality training of future specialists, is practice-oriented learning, which involves the formation of personal and professional competencies of the future social educator, contributing to the proper level of implementation of professional tasks, set before social educator as a specialist. The article substantiates the relevance of practice-oriented learning of future social educators, its essence and conditions of implementation are revealed. The authors analyzed the scientific and pedagogical literature on the application of a practice-oriented approach in the system of higher education and the problems of professional development of future specialists. The article presents the results of a student survey that determined the presence or absence of the necessary qualities of a future social pedagogue as a person and a professional and the difficulties of professional and personal development identified on their basis. This survey is one of the qualitative and quantitative methods that will be conducted during the research. It helped to identify the presence and formation of personal qualities of future social educators at the pre-university and primary university stages of professional education. The analysis of the interview results helps to determine the necessary personality qualities, the development of which contributes to the successful realization of professional abilities. The difficulties that students face when entering the profession and related to the lack of formation of certain personal and professional qualities and competencies were identified.

The article aims to substantiate the impossibility of training personnel for socio-pedagogical work without the practice-oriented approach to training specialists in higher educational establishment, without the formation of personal and professional competencies of the future social educator, to perform professional tasks qualitatively and at the proper level.