Formation of professional competencies for social work for the students of social pedagogy

The issues with professional competencies and the process of forming such competencies are gaining more and more significance under the conditions of contemporary workforce education and further professional realization. The purposeful mastering of a set of specific skills, knowledge and conduct is a precondition for adequate professional realization and development. The acquisition of quality knowledge and the processing of such knowledge through personal experience and different manifestations of social and economical reality is a major trend in the educational processes for contemporary higher education. Active and interactive education methods rank among the most prospective methods for professional training of specialists. The paper treats the possibilities for forming professional competencies in the process of training social pedagogy students through the applications of the following approaches to the planning and conduct of tuition: the competency-based, the systematic, and the constructivist approaches. Special emphasis is placed upon the classes for exercise and the workshops in Social Pedagogy and Social Work. Particular attention is given to the significance of the organizing and conducting of the training practice for the acquisition of professional competencies for social work and for the support of the realization of young people with higher education on the labor