SOCIAL PARTNERSHIP AS A TOOL FOR UNIVERSITY TRAINING OF SOCIAL WORKERS

Abstract

Decentralization and democratization of public and state relations affects today’s social work in Ukraine. Universities should be the source which with the help of social partnership can change the status of a future social worker. The purpose of the article is to study social partnership as a tool for training social workers in higher education. The study used the analysis of educational and methodological practice of professional development of social work on the basis of social dialogue at universities. Teaching the discipline "Social Partnership" for students majoring in "Social Work" must be consistent with the requirements of the time, which are set before higher education. First, it is the importance of the transition of higher education institutions to formal partnerships with employers, which would include the training of professionals needed for the social services market. Secondly, the fixation of the "teacher – student" partnership in the syllabus as a reflection of the agreement on the organization of the educational process in the specialty "social work" and other specialties inthe humanities cycle. Thirdly, it is necessary to actively involve scientific and scientific-pedagogical staff in the study of the mechanism of social procurement and to ensure its proper understanding and use by practicing specialists in our country. Among other important factors there are consideration of social partnership as an integrative quality of personality, which allows to interconnect the interests of different groups of socially divided society and develops in students through the acquisition of relevant knowledge and skills, the formation of attitudes to the world. These factors form the basis for claiming that teaching partnership is both a process of learning to use this tool in social services, and its use in the educational process. The tools for training future social workers include the development of a system of active civic participation, support for student participation in the case movement, social order, and the syllabus of the discipline.