The issue of implementation of the essence and value of recreational activities into the contents of future social workers’ training

Abstract

This article is devoted to the issue of implementation of the essence and value of recreational activities into the contents of future social workers’ training. There are many changes, also new technologies of work, directions and innovative forms of education are introduced at this stage of future social workers’ professional training. Today a social worker needs to be able to adapt quickly to society changes and mobilize his/her forces into a productive work direction that will solve professional tasks. Compared to a social pedagogue, a social worker has a wider range of work, multifunctionality in the profession, somewhat different contingent of clients who require a high level of knowledge, ability to handle stress, self-control and ability to work effectively in an emergency. The modern system of higher education allows educational institutions to introduce new educational subjects, which in their opinion are important and irreplaceable in the future specialists’ professional training. Recreational activity is a relatively new direction in pedagogical science. Thus, until recently, recreational activity was studied in the spheres of physical and cross-cultural sciences that investigate the restoration of human’s physical and spiritual condition by means of physical exercises complex and tourist and recreational routes development in different resort places where people will both recover their strength and enrich themselves spiritually. In pedagogical science recreational activity is intended to restore and establish, first of all, spiritual and mental forces of a person that will help to feel better and to carry out the activities at a high level. It is important that future social workers learn the basics and the main goals of recreational activities. First of all, it means to be able to restore their mental and spiritual powers by themselves, because this person is the main link between the system of social assistance and a person who needs it. And also it means to be able to teach others to recover their strengths, to develop together with the personality effective recovery systems to be used in future.