Needs in Social Workers’ Training to Protect the Rights of Children

• Authors: Olena Karagodina , Olha Baidarova , Viacheslav Fedchenkov , Iryna Pykalo

Abstracts

EN

The study aims to assess the professional training needs of employees of the two institutional actors for the protection of children’s rights in Ukraine; identify factors shaping these needs. The data were obtained through an online survey of 452 people. Employees of two services differently assessed the importance of certain groups of competencies in their work that is related to the historic accounts of services’ responsibilites. The needs in education are mostly correlated with the experience of workers in the implementation of difficult tasks that require knowledge and skills related to the fundamentals of work in the area of child protection, as well as competencies to establish rapport with families.

Keywords

EN

professional training; protection the rights of children; rights and interests of children; competences; educational needs

• Publisher: Wydawnictwo Adam Marszałek
• Journal: The New Educational Review
• Year: 2021
• Volume: 63
• Pages: 38-48

Dates

published

2021

Contributors

author

Olena Karagodina

• Academy of Labour, Kyiv

author

Olha Baidarova

• Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv

author

Viacheslav Fedchenkov

• INGO ‘International Leadership and Development Centre’, Kyiv

author

Iryna Pykalo

• Academy of Labour, Kyiv

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Identifiers

DOI

10.15804/tner.21.63.1.03

Biblioteka Nauki

1964095