UPDATING THE CONTENT OF SOCIAL WORK TEXTBOOKS IN THE CONTEXT OF INNOVATIVE EDUCATIONAL STANDARDS

Abstract

The article presents the results of analyzing the problem of the future social worker's educational standards and the possibility of their implementation in the context of a competent system of vocational education, updating the content of textbooks, manuals, which train students in specialty "Social Work». The necessity of a comprehensive approach to the introduction of educational standards, integrating general and special, professional and personal, is substantiated. It’s argued the position, according to which the modernization of the modern social worker’s professional training system, in particular its content and technological support, in accordance with European and state quality standards, is a complex and multifunctional problem. It requires a comprehensive approach to its solution and concerns, first of all, coordination with the innovative system of social activity.
Educational standards of a social worker are studied on the basis of processes of integration, differentiation, as well as interaction of general and individualized. It is about finding a balance between objectively set standards of education quality and personality-oriented model of a competent specialist, which forms in accordance with the concept "I am a future social worker". In particular, emphasis is placed on the personal component of professional competence, which is provided through the integration of professional and personal in the educational process. The importance of the diagnostic component of the system is indicated. It allows not only to determine its qualitative indicators, but also to regulate the process, constantly comparing the results of specialist training with educational and quality qualification characteristics.
Also it was analyzed the complex of state educational standards in the field of social work, which integrate state and regional components, responding to specific demands of society. Generalization of the theoretical positions of competency education made it possible to analyze educational standards of social workers' professional training, adopted in 2019, features of their content and technological support, which should be reflected in different kinds of educational literature. It is emphasized, that the content and technological support of the implementation of educational programs should be aimed at the implementation of three blocks of competencies of future social workers, which are adequate to certain educational standards.