Lisovets O. Theory and practice of forming social and legal competence of future social workers under the conditions of university education

Object: process of forming social and legal competence of future social workers under the conditions of university education; aim: achieved by substantiating, developing and checking experimentally the pedagogical system of forming social and legal competence of future social workers under the conditions of university education; methods: systematic analysis of scientific literature, modeling, structured observation, conversation, pedagogical experiment, questioning, testing, analysis, ranking, correlation analysis, expert review; novelty: the author’s pedagogical system of forming social and legal competence of future social workers under the conditions of university education was first developed and experimentally verified effectiveness; the theoretical foundations of forming social and legal competence of future social workers under the conditions of university education are scientifically substantiated, the essence and content of social and legal competence in the context of the professional training of social work students are characterized; the concept of „social and legal competence of a social worker” is theoretically substantiated and characterized, the structure of social and legal competence of future social workers is defined; the content of educational and professional training programs for future social workers is improved, as well as the methods and organizational forms of the educational process at the university, contributing to the achievement of the necessary level of forming social and legal competence by future social workers; scientific theses on theory and methods of professional training specialists in social work sphere got their further development as well as scientific conceptions about the nature, structure, criteria and level peculiarities in acquiring social and legal competence by future social workers; educational complexes for the courses „Legal Fundamentals for Social Work”, „Fundamentals for Social-Legal Protection”, „International Mechanism of Protecting an Individual”, „Social-Pedagogical Judicial Protection”, „Specific Case of Social-Legal Protection” was developed.