Formation of professional inclusive competencies among employees of educational organizations in rural areas

Abstract

This article is devoted to disclose one of the key tasks of modern Russian education — the creation of conditions for accessibility of education for persons with disabilities (hereinafter HIA) and permanent disablement. The subject of experimental study was the system of secondary vocational education, in the context of ensuring the availability of training programs for mid-level specialists, skilled workers and employees for applicants with disabilities and HIA. The basis for ensuring accessibility, according to the author, is undoubtedly the readiness of administrative and managerial personnel and teaching staff as a whole to implement inclusive secondary vocational education. The author considers in detail the issues of determining and developing special (personnel, program-methodical, material-technical, organizational) conditions in educational organizations of secondary vocational education. The results of a monitoring study of the state of employees’ readiness in technical schools and colleges for inclusive education are presented. The methods used in the monitoring process were: questionnaires, questionnaires for heads of educational organizations, support specialists, teachers, production masters and parents of students with disabilities. According to the results of the study, personnel shortages were identified and the directions of development of the personnel in colleges and technical schools on the organization and implementation of inclusive education were described. One of the issues under consideration is the organization and implementation of training of defectological personnel for special and inclusive education in conditions of professional educational organizations (colleges, universities). And also the issue of the use of human resources within the framework of networking of educational organizations, including those implementing training programs for mid-level specialists, skilled workers and employees.