LTStraipsnyje analizuojamos šiuolaikinės globalios visuomenės gyvenimo kokybei itin svarbios sociokultūrinės kompetencijos, teikiančios prielaidas sėkmingai asmens integracijai į nuolat besikeičiančią aplinką, gebėjimą gyventi kartu su kitais, palaikyti harmoningus santykius tiek profesinėje veikloje, tiek pilietinėje visuomenėje. Aptariamos sociokultūros, sociokultūrinių kompetencijų sampratos, pateikiama vertybių, kaip sociokultūrinės kompetencijos dalies, svarba suvokiant ne tik save, bet ir šalia esančius, sociokultūrinių kompetencijų ugdymo prielaidos profesinio rengimo sistemoje. [Iš leidinio]Reikšminiai žodžiai: Sociokultūra; Sociokultūrinės kompetencijos; Profesinis rengimas; Socioculture; Socio-cultural competencies; Vocational education and training.
ENThis paper analyses the contemporary global society's quality of life - essential to sociocultural competence, providing conditions for the successful integration of the person into a constantly changing environment, the ability to live with the others and maintaining harmonious relations in profession and civil society. Issues discussed: the sociocultural, socio-cultural competency concepts, the values of the socio-cultural competence, the importance of understanding not only themselves, but also nearby, the socio-cultural competency training assumptions of VET system. The modern global society's quality of life is becoming extremely important expertise providing preconditions for successful integration into the constantly changing environment, the ability to live with others, and maintaining harmonious relations profession and civil society. Sociocultural concept of public communication norms, customs, traditions, the most important social values, human relationships, lifestyle, non-verbal expression of identity and so on.The socio-cultural competence is interpreted as a public culture in a broad sense, the general socio-cultural context of cognition. Socio-cultural competence acquired and developed throughout life, is conducive to the survival and successful operation of the present job market. Socio-cultural competency content and effects of socialization is highly dependent on the specific field in which these competences are provided, acquired and applied. Vocational training as a full- time continuing education activity is conductive environment to develop these competencies.Bruges Communiqué (2012, p. 10) states that "the initial and continuing vocational training has a dual purpose: contributing to employability and economic growth and solve common problems of society, in particular the promotion of social cohesion".The social aims of the training component of the development time and the strategy of the European Union higher education documents, stating that "higher education ... play a vital role in the development of individuals and society development, the formation of qualified human capital and active citizenship" (European Higher education in the modernization agenda. Growth and employment promotion, 2011, p.2). Gross public social and cultural context of the identification of the person is inseparable from the inner moral values. In today's post-modern society, a person raises challenges to balance the already well-established in a democratic society and cultural values (human rights and liberties, civil tolerance, harmony, ambition, etc.) and the new (extreme free-market fundamentalism, the family of the Institute's role reduction, the approach to life of liberalization, the pop and subculture, and so on). So, the axiological aspect of socio-cultural competence "personifies" the competence and gives it meaning and value. [From the publication]