FORMATION OF THE FUTURE SPECIALIST’S COMMUNICATIVE COMPETENCE AND COMPETENCIES IN CONDITIONS OF UNIVERSITY EDUCATION

Abstract

The article focuses on the need to implement a competency-based approach as a methodology for designing and forecasting the goals and results of professional and communicative training of social work specialists, aimed at the development of competence and the acquisition of communicative competencies that ensure the formation of communicative culture, taking into consideration both personal and social needs and interests. The analysis of scientific sources on the features of the competence approach, competence and competencies was put through. The author’s interpretation of the definition of “competence approach” is given. The range of communicative competencies that must be adopted by future social work specialists in the process of professional training in the system of university education is outlined. The neediness of introducing a competency-based approach to the educational process is explained by several factors. As the first, the transition from an industrial economy to the “knowledge economy” requires competencies for successful development in conditions of unpredictability and uncertainty. As the second, the most world’s influential business leaders and employers are increasingly saying, that the educational system must better meet the needs of everyday life and be prepared for work in the face of today’s and future complex challenges. As the third, modern information technologies of education allow transforming and optimizing the learning process, professional training of future specialists in the system of university education. Acquired competencies will enable a social worker to be competitive in the labor market, freely possessing their professionalactivities, the acquired baggage of communicative knowledge, skills, and to be ready for constant professional self-improvement.
 Keywords: competence approach; competence; competences; communicative competences; future social work specialist; university education; author’s definition; social worker’s professional activity.