Key aspects of social pedagogues’ training for the comprehensive secondary school activity at the modern life stage, which are characterized by rapid decline of lives of hundreds of people resulting from annexation of Crimea and military aggression at Donbas, are considered at the article. Subsequent effect of these tremendous events are an increasing number of migrants, children who have lost their parents, relatives, friends, residential space; have suffered from nervous breakdowns, stresses and may be a disability. All these factors actualize the necessity of additional support for social pedagogues’ training. There is a problem of training social pedagogues and making changes to its content in accordance with the life changes. There is an acute contradiction between the needs of society in social pedagogues, trained to solve professional problems in modern conditions of existence and the insufficient development of theoretical and practical aspects of the professional training in the social-pedagogical work in complex realities nowadays. There are a lot of new problem-solving tasks for social-pedagogical science: to know new tendencies of collaboration in social, social-pedagogical and volunteer spheres; to make alterations for the theoretical and practical preparation content for social pedagogues quickly and effectively; to give the advantage for practical preparation of social pedagogues, implementing the innovative technologies which were originated these days at the social-pedagogical activity and volunteer action in the decision process of country’s immediate needs. It is concluded that events of the newest history of Ukraine require greater accountability for the quality of training of social pedagogues and operational changes in training programmes primarily to the practical part of it. Pedagogical science and practice must address a number of new tasks: to examine and summarize the new trends that have developed in cooperation of different subjects of social, socio-pedagogical and volunteer work; identify ways of cooperation of social workers with the volunteer movement and social services in the new environment.
The paper describes the problem of future social pedagogues’ training to implementing the system of work aimed at ensuring the non-conflicting return of the people released from prison and provide them with appropriate assistance. The author analyzes the factors that complicate the return to normal life of the released people, including: 1) forced social isolation (defines the weakening of family ties, the cessation of traditional social roles, reducing activity and limiting sensory and mental stimulation, removes the individual from the community of people, deprives him of meaningful social interaction and physical contact, that is a prerequisite for the realization of the individual self, which is formed and maintained through social interactions); 2) the authoritarian regime of the penitentiary institutions (contributes to the formation of passive behavior, low readiness for change perception, loss of ability to take independent decisions in matters of life, employment, acquisition and rational use of material resources); 3) informal laws of prison community (cause tension of prisoners, feelings of self-doubt, isolation, state of «loneliness in conditions of group isolation», internal discomfort, transfer such character of relationships to a free life, cultivation of criminal subculture and asocial experience); 4) awareness of crime (under the condition of repentance or non-repentance, aggravate the personal destruct). The materials of the article have identified the importance of understanding of the deformation changes in the consciousness of the prisoners in the professional growth of future social pedagogues. The opportunities of reflection of these causal links in the content of the discipline «Social work in the penitentiary system of Ukraine» and the implementation of the main provisions into the university educational process are considered. The system of mastering of socio-pedagogical technologies of work with prisoners, convicts, released offenders in the content of master’s training coming out of these objective and subjective factors and in accordance with the stages of re-socialization of convicts (before-penitentiary, penitentiary, post-penitentiary) are proposed, namely prevention of crime, social-pedagogical work with prisoners, newly arrived convicts, convicts, social-psychological preparation of prisoners for release, social-pedagogical support of prisoners after release from prison. The analysis allows to assert the need for raising awareness and implementation in social work with existing or former prisoners and work on crime prevention problems caused by crime, the new social status, the image changed life. Under these conditions an effective basis for selection of appropriate social and educational technology is created.
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