Abstract
The problem of professional training of future social workers in the context of formation of necessary knowledge, skills and abilities is actualized in the article. The views of scientists on the content of the notions of competency, competences and professional competency of social workers are considered. The author's definitions of “competency”, “competences”, “professional competency” and “social and legal competency” are also suggested. Professional competency is the formation of various components, a system of certain components and personality and psychological properties of the individual, which includes knowledge, skills, abilities, personal characteristics and organizational and pedagogical conditions for training future specialists. The main components of socio-legal competencies are identified: cognitive, activity-operative, motivational, personal and instrumental. It also identifies the types of social and legal knowledge that future social workers will receive in the course of their professional training and the skills and abilities of their professional activity. Knowledge of social and legal activity for work with young families was divided into types by the following criteria: socio-legal knowledge in the fields of law, socio-legal knowledge obtained by the degree of their hierarchy in legislation, socio-legal knowledge of the degree of formation, social and legal knowledge on the degree of use of the acquired information. In addition, the acquired knowledge and skills of social and legal activity, which is an activity-operational component of social and legal competency, are accordingly formed in relation to the acquired social and legal knowledge: individual organizational skills, skills and abilities in forecasting and design work, skills and counseling skills.
 An instrumental component of the formation of complex knowledge of social and legal activity is suggested where social design as a modern progressive tool for overcoming social problems in dealing with young families was highlighted. A social project called “Education for a Young Family” was developed. It is proved that without all the components, social and legal activity will not be fully implemented and social and legal competency will be impossible to develop.
Highlights
Vocational training of future social workers in modern social conditions should be carried out at the proper level, so that the educational process of higher educational institutions should be carried out with the help of new methods, forms, means of education for the formation of complex knowledge, which could be applied in practical activity to future specialists in the social sphere
In the writings of these and other authors, the contents of the professional training of future social workers to work with young families, including the content of complex knowledge of social and legal activities, is not fully covered
Preparing future social workers for professional activities within the study is viewed from the perspective of a competency-based approach that shifts the emphasis from the process of accumulation of knowledge, skills and abilities to the plane of formation and development of students' ability to practice, apply the acquired knowledge and experience in professional activity
Summary
Vocational training of future social workers in modern social conditions should be carried out at the proper level, so that the educational process of higher educational institutions should be carried out with the help of new methods, forms, means of education for the formation of complex knowledge, which could be applied in practical activity to future specialists in the social sphere In the writings of these and other authors, the contents of the professional training of future social workers to work with young families, including the content of complex knowledge of social and legal activities, is not fully covered. Preparing future social workers for professional activities within the study is viewed from the perspective of a competency-based approach that shifts the emphasis from the process of accumulation of knowledge, skills and abilities to the plane of formation and development of students' ability to practice, apply the acquired knowledge and experience in professional activity. The purpose of the article is to determine the structure of social and legal competencies of a social worker in dealing with young families
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