Innovative Approach to the Organization of Future Social Workers’ Practical Training: Foreign Experience

• Authors: Vira Polishchuk , Hanna Slozanska
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Innovative approaches to practical training of future social workers in higher educational establishments have been defined. Peculiarities of foreign experience of social workers’ practical training in higher educational establishments have been analyzed. Experience of organizing practice for bachelor students studying at “Social Work” specialty in Ternopil National Pedagogical University, namely the aim, tasks, general principles of forming a system of continuous practical training of future social workers, has been studied. Peculiarities of social workers’ practical training in the process of undergoing some definite kinds of practices have been analyzed. Features of cooperation of educational establishments and social services, agencies, institutions, which are the bases for professional training of future specialists, have been defined. The core principle of such cooperation is the principle of regular studying that presupposes combination of theoretical education and real practical activity. It has been determined that in the process of practical training students deepen and expand their knowledge, are taught to think critically, elaborate and fulfill algorithms of solving different social problems, find information about resources of social help and support as well as their providers, follow ethical principles of social work, estimate results of social intrusion and personal knowledge and skills, improve them.

Keywords

EN

social worker; professional training; continuous practical training; bachelor qualification level; education and vocational training program

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: Comparative Professional Pedagogy
• Year: 2014
• Volume: 4
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 27-32

Dates

published

2014-06-01

online

2014-07-02

Contributors

author

Vira Polishchuk

• Ternopil V. Hnatiuk National Pedagogical University Address: 2 Kryvonosa Str., Ternopil, 46000, Ukraine

author

Hanna Slozanska

• Ternopil V. Hnatiuk National Pedagogical University Address: 2 Kryvonosa Str., Ternopil, 46000, Ukraine

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/rpp-2014-0015