Experience of forming professional and communicative competency of future social workers in education systems of Western European countries

摘要

The article analyzes the experience of forming professional and communicativecompetency of future social workers in the education systems of Western European countries, inparticular, France, Germany and Switzerland. On the basis of generalization of the studieddata it has been found out that each country has its own techniques of forming professionaland communicative competency of social workers, which are peculiar to its own specificcharacter and based on the well-established traditions of a particular society. At the sametime it has been defined that basic qualities which social workers should have for efficientprofessional and communicative activity (striving for communication, ability to establishcommunicative interaction with different members of society, knowledge of professionalspeech etiquette etc.) are common for all countries. The content of the forming professionaland communicative competency of students in the education systems of France, Germanyand Switzerland has been analyzed. Forms and methods used in the educational process inorder to develop professional and communicative competency of the future social workershave been defined. It has been found out that the theoretical training of students is closelylinked to the usage of acquired communication skills and habits in the process of practicaltraining, which is given much study time aimed at obtaining by the students a maximumprofessional experience in the real terms of communicative interaction. It has been definedthat a modern pattern of forming professional and communicative competency of futuresocial workers in the higher educational establishments of Ukraine should be created in theunity of social factors of our country and foreign experience.