Structure and Content of Future Social Workers’ Training: Experience, Problems and Prospects

The urgency of the study is determined by the need to train modern specialists in the field of social work, designated to solve serious social problems in various negative phenomena prevention in public life. The paper is aimed at developing a strategy for the pedagogical universities students training in the field of social work, which allows not only master modern technologies and techniques, but also overcome emotional burnout, professional deformation, and be professionally stable specialists. A special course structure and content “The social pedagogue activity in the modern conditions” is developed; a diagnostic toolkit is defined: pedagogical portrait of students professional growth, the competences map are revealed; the main conditions for this special course effective approbation and the directions for assessing its impact on increasing the students professional competence in the field of teachers social work are examined. The paper also presents the results of experimental work on the special course implementation “The activities of the social pedagogue in modern conditions”, its features are shown and recommendations for its implementation in the framework of educational projects are given. The paper is intended for researchers, educators, Methodists dealing with the problems of social pedagogy.