MODERN REALITIES OF THE STATE OF FORMATION OF PROFESSIONAL AND ETHICAL COMPETENCE OF FUTURE SOCIAL SPHERE SPECIALISTS

Abstract

The basis of modern educational policy is the quality of higher education. It is higher education that contributes to the solution of a set of tasks aimed at forming the personality of a competent specialist, focused on lifelong learning, constant personal and professional self-improvement. Attention is being increased to the general moral-legal development of the individual as well as to the professional-ethical. The objective level of professional training is determined by the formation of professional and personal qualities. It is obvious that not only the amount of knowledge, skills and abilities, but also the synthesis of competencies, practical experience and professional-ethical qualities are an indicator of a thoroughly and comprehensively trained specialist. Therefore, a modern social worker is not only to demonstrate the necessary skills, knowledge and abilities, but also to acquire values in order to prevent and treat social diseases of people of all ages. The State Sectoral Standard for Social Workers Training in higher education institutions defines among the main general requirements in the field of social work: the ability to adhere to ethical principles and standards of social work; the ability to identify ethical dilemmas and contradictions in the professional sphere, to use means of supervision to solve them. Thus, the formation of professional and ethical competence is the basis of professional training in higher education institutions. The aim of the article is to study the state of formation of professional and ethical competence of future specialists in the social sphere in the educational process of higher education institutions. Research methods used: survey and diagnostic methods (questionnaires, conversation, testing, interviews, diagnostics) – for identifying the state of formation of professional and ethical competence of future social professionals. The obtained results allow us to state that the modern system of training of specialists in the social sphere at the present stage is quite slowly reoriented from reproductive education to competence-oriented innovative education. The results of research in this area lead to the following conclusions: the formation of professional ethics of future specialists in the social sphere is unsystematic, and this is seen as a problem in the formation of the main components of professional and ethical competence; most future specialists in the social sphere need concrete and effective assistance in forming the main categories of morality that form the foundation of professional and ethical competence; most often teachers focus on how students learn the content of the discipline, rather than on the formation of professional and ethical skills, personal and moral qualities, which are the key components of professional and ethical competence; teachers mainly use traditional educational technologies, which does not motivate students to the subjectivity of the educational process in higher education institutions.