ACMEOLOGICAL ASPECTS OF PROFESSIONAL TRAINING OF SOCIAL WORKERS IN CONTINUOUS EDUCATION

Abstract

The article reveals the peculiarities of the assimilation by future social workers of the theoretical foundations of continuing education during the study of the course of andragogy with the basics of acmeology. Students acquire the categorical apparatus of this sphere, they realize the essence of continuous education, which is regarded as the main principle of its organization, as a system embracing all levels of education. An important acmeological approach to the pedagogical training of future social workers is to show the natural potential of each person and create conditions for a creative productive turn of her interests, talents. An analysis of the legal framework of documents regulating the activities of higher education institutions, such as: Law of Ukraine «On Education» (2014) and «On Higher Education» (2018), Concepts of Development of Continuing Teacher Education (2013)), The Concepts of Development of Education of Ukraine for the period 2015-2025 (project), the Concepts of Adult Education in Ukraine (2011), the Concepts of Development of Teacher Education (project, 2012), etc. The essence of the concept of «continuous education», which is considered by scientists as a continuous process that stimulates people and allows them to acquire the necessary knowledge, values, skills that contribute to the personal and professional realization and self-realization of a person, improving his skills throughout life, is disclosed. The functions of continuing education: compensating (elimination of gaps of basic education); adaptive (prompt preparation and retraining in the conditions of maintenance of industrial and social situation); developmental (meeting the spiritual demands of the individual and the needs of creative growth) are distinguished. The ways of realization of continuous education are outlined. The principles of organization of the system of continuous education (humanization, continuity, predictability, variability, ability to self-organization and self-development) is determined.