Socialinių pedagogų profesinių kompetencijų tobulinimo ypatumai

LTReikšminiai žodžiai: Kompetencijos; Profesinių kompetencijų tobulinimas; Profesinė kvalifikacija; Socialinis pedagogas; Suaugusiųjų mokymasis; Tęstinis ugdymas; Adult Learning; Competences; Continuing Education; Improvement of Professional Competences; Professional qualifications; Social Educator; Social pedagogue.

ENToday the ideas of long life learning are not theories anymore. The changing needs of a society force many of people acquire new competences and professional qualifications. Education is not provided for once and ever but becomes the result of a permanent learning that lasts for the rest of one’s life. The issues of professional development are solved in the context of long life learning and continuous education. Research highlights that a big impact is made on the knowledge and value formation of a social pedagogue by the new university study programmes enabling to continue studies and update one’s knowledge, update qualification and master new technologies. The graduates of the social pedagogue’s non-university study programmes are provided with the possibility to continue their studies at Vilnius Pedagogical University. The results of the research carried out for the first time to identify the needs and possibilities of the development of professional competences could be Used for constant update and improvement of study programs, it creates the prerequisites to train social pedagogues as highly qualified professionals who would meet the needs of labour market and society by being of high professional competences.The object of the final thesis is the development of social pedagogues’ professional competences during continuous studies. The following research methods were employed: theoretical, empirical and statistical. It was identified during the research that the theoretical knowledge acquired during the study process is not sufficient, it should be solidified in practice to become skills. The ones who have lower than higher education lack both theoretical knowledge and practical skills. Thus they choose continuous studies to acquire the lacking knowledge necessary for their job. The students of continuous - university - studies indicate that they have nearly sufficient theoretical knowledge but lack skills of practical activity. [From the publication]