NATIONALSOCIAL POLICY AND SOCIAL EDUCATION DEVELOPMENT: FOREIGN EXPERIENCE AND DOMESTIC CONTEXT

Abstract

The article deals with the question of national social policy impact on the development of the structure and the content of caseworker training in Ukraine and in the world. It was noted that characteristic of modern national social sphere development is its dependence on economic development, which according to modern scholars, analysts and experts, is in crisis condition. The gap between the proclaimed at the national level social plan values and real needs of the population in social protection brings up to date the problem of caseworkers’ commitment to the challenges of modernity. The researcher notes that the work of domestic scientists in the field of training social workers in Ukraine and in the world prompts the establishment of objective factors that complicate the implementation of a specialist in everyday reality. The article focuses on the search for effective models of training social workers in foreign experience. These studies contain interesting and diverse material on: mechanisms for the implementation of the system of continuous social education; partnership cooperation between educational institutions and social institutions in the context of the training of future specialists, their social protection and employment; general tendencies, principles, concepts, systems and models of training of social workers and social educators from different countries. The researcher points out the need to maximally approximate the educational process and direct the practical training of a modern social worker to the practical needs of the country, given the statement in the social policy of Ukraine of the tendency to refuse the general social function of protection in favor of personal assistance to certain social groups (the unemployed, elderly, disabled). On the ground of the analysis of Ukrainian social policy current state, taking into account the current system of case workers’ training in state institutions of higher education, and leading directions of domestic studies of foreign experience on a particular problem, it was found that there is a need to analyze fundamentally the problem of correlation of the current (world) models of social protection of the population with the peculiarities of case workers’ training in view of the domestic context.