Personalized Approach to Professional Development of “Helping” Professions Specialists

Natalya Ivanovna Nikitina,Natalya Iosifovna Agronina,Svetlana Nikolaevna Tolstikova,Veronica Mickhailovna Grebennikova,Tatyana Engersovna Galkina

doi:10.5901/mjss.2015.v6n5s4p437

Abstract

In modern Russia the problem of personalized approach in the system of refresher training of “helping” professions specialists (social workers, psychologists, and social pedagogues) is one of the urgent problems of professional education pedagogy. The article explains its authors` position to the nature of personalized approach in the system of postgraduate education of social profile professionals, as well as the principles (temporality, potentiality, clusternode, positivity, predictability, socio-pedagogical support of an adult student individuality, etc.), conditions, substantial-technological basis for the implementation of this approach. The authors of the article in theory summarize the extensive empirical material, which was obtained by them as a result of their research work in the period from 2000 to 2015 at improvement of qualification and professional retraining courses for social workers, psychologists, social pedagogues, education managers in a number of Russian universities. The article considers features (diagnostic, predictive, reflective-compensatory, professionally responsible, constructive and transformative, adaptive-environmental, preventive, creative and developmental), stages (analytical and marketing, diagnostic and orientation, organizational, procedural, expert monitoring), performance criteria for the implementation of personalized approach in the system of additional professional education of social sphere specialists (subjective-personal, professional, objective, constructive and didactic criteria); the data on the value (positive dynamics) of satisfaction index of personalized approach implementation at their own courses, which refresher training faculties graduates in a number of Russian universities showed. DOI: 10.5901/mjss.2015.v6n5s4p437

Highlights

In the last decade, the Russian system of postgraduate education of social sphere staff is developing in the economic context of market relations penetration in the sphere of vocational education services
Y Identified above didactic factors for successful personalized approach implementation in the system of “helping” professions specialistspostgraduate education can be considered as recommendations for organizational-technological and informative-methodical bases improvement in institutions engaged in advanced training and professional retraining of social sphere specialists
Personalized approach contributes to the social sphere staff training, able to adapt to professional environment changes, promotes personal and professional self-determination, professional and personal growth of a specialist

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The Russian system of postgraduate education of social sphere staff is developing in the economic context of market relations penetration in the sphere of vocational education services. According to the authors, personalized approach postulates understanding of a subject taught in the system of postgraduate professional education as a complex, multilevel, open, self-organized system that has an ability to keep itself in a state of dynamic equilibrium and to generate new forms of their life organization. This approach expresses the requirement to let adult students (students of the training) select options of educational routes, programs, educational services, training on individual educational trajectories in accordance with individual capabilities, changing cognitive needs, and career prospects. The implementation of this approach relies on the internal resources of an adult student personality, provides development and implementation of individual programs of professional and personal specialist’s growth

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