MAIN TRENDS IN PROFESSIONAL TRAINING OF FUTURE SPECIALISTS IN SOCIONOMIC SPECIALTIES

Abstract

Introduction. Modern vocational education acquires a new function – it becomes a means of integration into world and national culture, being at the same time a means of humanizing human relations. Researchers primarily include globalization and integration as civilizational trends in the development of education in the modern world. It has been proven that these processes are caused by the public need for specialists with a new socio-cultural position; the tendency of modern professional training to humanitarian, socio-cultural orientation; the need to develop new didactic systems characterized by flexibility, variability, adaptability; strengthening the socializing role of education for adults; expanding the possibilities of informal education through distance and individual learning. The purpose of the study is to determine and substantiate the leading trends in the professional training of future specialists in socionomic professions, to align their main parameters with social changes and leading directions of social progress. Conclusions. The theoretical substantiation of the essence of professional training of future specialists in the socionomic sphere is based on the understanding of general patterns, factors (socio-political, socio-economic, social, socio-pedagogical) and leading trends (humanization of human relations, the desire to train competitive young specialists, features of future specialists in socionomic specialties during the period of professionalization, interprofessionalism of their professional training). They are correlated with the main trends in the development of higher education based on their interrelations and interdependencies, which ensures the possibility of successful work of professionals in the conditions of the socionomic sphere, the form of their inclusion in the sociopolitical, socio-economic, socio-pedagogical, socio-cultural processes of society.