INNOVATIVE TECHNOLOGIES OF TRAINING SOCIAL SPHERE SPECIALISTS: THE EXPERIENCE OF SCANDINAVIAN COUNTRIES
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https://doi.org/10.24919/2313-2094.5/37.102614Keywords:
innovation, technology, social worker, competence, education, professional trainingAbstract
It has been determined that the study of foreign organization and functioning experience of higher education gained the value in the conditions of globalization and integration processes. It is important for Ukraine to solve the problems of training specialists in the field of social work. The educational practice of countries that have a long experience in such type of training, including Denmark, Norway, Sweden are of particular interest in this aspect.
It was revealed that research and practical activity of training of social sphere professionals demonstrated enhancement in study activity having mentioned transformation processes, updated approaches to the organization of the learning process, innovative technological means of training in the Nordic countries. The active usage of electronic means of communications, distance learning (distance learning programs, massive open online courses, webinars, consultations, etc.) in educational activities of universities and university colleges of Denmark, Norway and Sweden are demonstrated in specific examples. It was grounded that innovative technologies usage provided training of future professionals having formed social skills for research, professional competence.
It has been argued that educational programs for preparing the «European Masterʼs» of Social Work inherited innovative as they are realized by international university consortia of Denmark, Norway, Sweden with the active participation and cooperation of Germany, the Netherlands, Bulgaria, Spain, Portugal and other countries.
It has been determined that the process of technology innovation in the learning process was more updated in recent years due to the introduction of a new generation of educational programs: «Erasmus +» and «Horizon 2020», which opens new opportunities for cooperation in education, training, including social workers, expand the circle of partners outside the European Union.
The attention was paid on the important role of practice in the educational process of students, which is directed on performing a wide palette of tasks carried out as in social services of the Nordic countries and abroad, which is particularly valuable.
It was concluded that modern innovative technology training of social sphere specialists in the Nordic countries met the needs of the time, scientific concepts, combining traditional forms and methods of innovation and promoted the training of creative and competent professionals in accordance with the requirements of the information society and social work under conditions of functioning «welfare states».
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