TRAINING OF SOCIAL WORKERS IN THE CONDITIONS OF THE REINTEGRATIVE EDUCATIONAL ENVIRONMENT OF THE UNIVERSITY

Abstract

Problem. The article examines the peculiarities of the training of social workers in the reintegration educational environment of the university. According to the author, such a concept of educational interaction is able to realize the socially oriented mission of the university, which consists in balancing the individual interests and needs of the subjects of the educational process and the needs of society, which express the processes of integration and differentiation of civil society.
The purpose of the article is to reveal the peculiarities of the training of social workers in the reintegration educational environment of the university, to identify challenges and perspectives. The main tasks of the research are as follows: to analyze the leading scientific experience on the problem of reintegration activities in the conditions of the educational environment; to determine the leading competencies of social workers that ensure successful interaction with servicemen in the direction of their reintegration; to find out the possibilities and ways of forming the defined competencies of social workers in the conditions of the reintegration educational environment of the university.
The research methodology is based on the general principles of scientific research, the basic provisions of modern pedagogical science, the principles of the implementation of sociopsychological research. The methodological basis of the research is the results of the project «Retraining and social adaptation of servicemen, veterans and their family members in Ukraine. Integration of the model of the project «Norway – Ukraine» into the state system, implemented by the Chernihiv National University of Technology.
The scientific novelty of the research consists in determining the ways and prospects of training social workers directly in interaction with consumers of social services in the conditions of reintegration educational environment.
Conclusions. Today, reintegration is one of the key challenges of the social sphere, which is why the professional formation of a social worker as a specialist, which takes place in the conditions of the reintegration educational environment of the university, creates an additional theoretical and practical base and forms the competencies necessary for a social worker in working with socially vulnerable categories of citizens that require social reintegration. Also, the integrative educational environment allows students of socio-psychological specialties to reflect the multifacetedness of social work based on such multi-level, targeted, preventive, innovative and international approaches embodied in real educational and integration projects.