MECHANISMS FOR IMPROVING THE QUALITY OF SOCIAL WORKERS’ TRAINING

Abstract

In the context of the environment approach, the social professionals’ training is seen as a holistic system, the components of which are interconnected. It has been found that improving the quality of social professionals’ training, in particular social workers, can be ensured by developing and introducing strategies for building the educational environment of the university. Social innovations are presented as an important resource for developing the social workers training that contribute to the innovative educational environment development of the university. The article notes that the values of the innovative educational environment of training are the norms of all participants interaction in the educational process, and strategies become the basis for improving the social workers’ training. A critical analysis of the possibilities of highlighting strategies for building an innovative educational environment of the university was carried out: partnership between all participants in the educational process and specialists in social institutions; engaging teachers in innovation; support the process of mainstreaming the future social workers’ innovative potential. The article presents the professional training should be aimed at the social specialist development capable of introducing innovations of social work, taking into account the clients’ needs and the realities of modern practical activities. Emphasis is placed on the importance of developing appropriate scientific and methodological support for the social workers training.