Development of professional competencies of future social educators through ART technologies

Abstract

The article emphasizes special attention to the problem of the development of specialists based on the development of human capital in the country, discusses in detail the importance of the formation of professional competence of future social educators. The development of professional competence of students in preparation for socio-pedagogical activities through art technology contributes to the creative solution of professional problems of future social educators. The article describes the concept of art technology and considers its possibilities in social and pedagogical activities. The study of art technologies based on art pedagogy, art therapy was carried out by analyzing the works of domestic and foreign scientists. The history of the origin and application of art technologies in philosophical, psychological, pedagogical, socio-pedagogical works is also considered. In the theoretical part of the study, the significance and features of art technologies in the formation of professional competence of future social educators were considered, in the practical part of the research work, an experiment was conducted for future social educators. Not only students, but also active social educators took part in the practice to share their cases in professional activities. About twenty social educators from different regions of the country shared their professional difficulties, problems, and ways to solve them. The students of the experimental group analyzed the cases of social educators based on solutions using art technologies in the course "Socio-pedagogical activity based on art". In the course, covering twelve lessons, students gained in-depth knowledge about art technologies, analyzing one type of art technology in each lesson, comprehensively analyzing the problems they may face in their future activities. In addition, during the experiment, a survey of students of the control and experimental groups "Self-assessment of professional activity" was conducted, it was revealed that the soft skills of students of the experimental group were twice as much as those of students of the control group. Thus, the importance of art technologies in the development of professional competence of social educators is proved.