MODERN PROBLEMS OF PROFESSIONAL TRAINING OF SOCIAL WORKERS IN HIGHER EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION AND THEIR SOLUTIONS

Importance of the chosen theoretical study depends on the increased requirements to higher schools which implement training of social workers. This fact can be explained by improvement of higher education system, social and economic transformations of modern society and increased requests of the population for social help and support. Closest attention of the government and public to the social sphere becomes more obvious.

Basing on the analysis of legal texts regulating educational activity in the Russian Federation, the authors give definitions to the concepts “Professional education”, “Vocational training”. The article states the objects in professional training of social workers at the university facing the scientific society, teaching staff and representatives of employers. The provided requirements determine pressing problems of professional training by social work in higher education, many of which are not new, but remain still insufficiently developed: e.g. identification of optimum conditions for vocational training of social workers (organizational, pedagogical, social and the other); explanation of specifics of educational process organization when training social workers within the academic and applied bacheloriate; development and strengthening of communication between bacheloriate and magistracy, and expansion of opportunities of transition from a bachelor degree to magistracy; development of practice-oriented training in a higher education institution; introduction and development of the computer training programs and skills allowing to check the level of formation in practical activities of a social worker; practice organization; reduction in curricula for extended practical training.

Today the necessity of complex interaction between educational institutions, representatives of employers, and government institutions in the solution of the problems described is quite urgent. Such preparation has to provide the graduates with the opportunity to follow the developing social sphere independently, to deeply understand occurring changes, and easily react to changes of system of social protection and so on.