PEDAGOGICAL MANAGEMENT OF THE SYSTEM OF FUTURE SPECIALISTS IN SOCIAL WORK TRAINING

The article highlights the areas of achieving the goal of future specialists in social work training from the standpoint of management theory, defines the principles, functions, and methods of the pedagogical management system of future specialists in social work training, highlights current problems and solutions of future specialists in social work training. The aim of the article is a theoretical analysis of the problems of pedagogical management of future specialists in social work training in the context of the competency approach. The objectives of the study are the following: 1) to identify areas for achieving the goal of future specialists in social work training from the standpoint of management theory; 2) determination of principles, functions, and methods of management of the system of future specialists in social work training; 3) selection on the basis of solving previous tasks of current problems of training this category of specialists. Emphasis is placed on the principles of management of the system of future specialists in social work training: formulation of aim, purposefulness, cooperation, functional approach, complexity, the combination of the target, functional management, and line management, self-improvement. The system of functions of pedagogical management of the system of future specialists in social work training is singled out and characterized: planning, management decision-making, staffing of scientific and pedagogical workers, effective communication, stimulation, guidance, and control. The author proves that the achievement of effective future specialists in social work training is provided by solving a set of tasks of pedagogical management, including implementation of continuity of future specialists in social work training based on updating its content, organizational forms, and methods; raising the level of managerial and professional culture of organizers and executors of professional future specialists in social work training; provision of interpersonal interaction in the process of training; introduction of pedagogical monitoring as a condition for improving the higher education student training for social and socio-pedagogical work in state and non-state social institutions.