The dissertation is devoted to the formation of professional culture in the future social workers in the process of professional training. in the work are revealed, the essence, peculiarities of content and structure of professional culture of social workers, criteria and indicators defining, the levels of formation are characterized. Professional culture in the social worker – is an individual integral characteristic of social work specialist personality, which is a set of professionally important knowledge, skills, values, moral and behavioral norms and professional outlook, based on a common personality culture, reflected in the work results and is a determining factor in achieving a high level of professionalism. The structure of the professional culture of the social worker includes: motivational-value, cognitive, communicative, organizational and behavioral components. There are criteria of the formation of professional culture - axiological, informational, interactive, organizational-activital, ethical. The levels of professional culture are high, medium and low. The low level of professional culture formation is characterized by insufficiently formed components of professional culture, which indicates the acquisition of basic professional knowledge, skills and abilities, but the inability in their independent application in practical activity. The middle level is characterized by the sufficient components of professional culture formation, the availability of sound professional knowledge, sufficiently developed communication and organizational skills and the formed system of values in the future specialists. The high level is characterized by the fact that students have the whole complex of professionally important knowledge, skills, high level of educationaly-cognitive and professional motivation, have a fully formed system of professionally important values. The pedagogical technology and pedagogical conditions for the formation of professional culture in the future social workers in the process of professional training have been created, theoretically substantiated and experimentally tested. Pedagogical technology is a specially organized system of pedagogical conditions, forms, methods and tools aimed at the formation of professional culture in future social workers in the process of professional training. Pedagogical technology provides: analysis of the curriculum, content of disciplines; selection of optimal forms and methods of training; increasing the share of independent work of students; intensification of practical professional training; attracting students to volunteer work; pedagogical diagnostics of the level of professional culture formation. The formation of professional culture in future social workers realizing with such a pedagogical conditions: promoting increased motivation for educational, cognitive and professional activities, the formation of professionally important values; updating the content of the training material; selection of optimal forms and methods of training; increasing the share of practical professional training, independent work of future social workers, attracting them to volunteer work.
