Abstract:

The results of experimental research of formation of the readiness of future social workers to the patronage work with the elderly were analyzed in the article. The complex of diagnostic methods for understanding the problem of readiness of future social workers to the patronage work with the elderly was elaborated. The real state of the readiness of future social workers to the patronage work with the elderly was analyzed. The effectiveness of the content of methods, forms, methodologies of formation of the readiness of future social workers to the aforesaid type of professional activity was proved. The dynamics of establishing of the readiness of future social workers to the patronage work with the elderly was considered. The structural-functional model of the process of formation of the readiness of future social workers to the patronage work with the elderly that included interrelated structural-functional components: aim, principles, forms and methods of the work, criteria, indicators and levels of the readiness was elaborated and introduced. The socio-pedagogical conditions of formation of the readiness of future social workers to the patronage work with the elderly were revealed and grounded. It was proved, that the designed model favors the formation of the readiness to the patronage work with the elderly in students of the specialty “Social work”. The expedience of elaborated scientific-methodological support at the forming stage of experimental research was grounded Author Biography Tetiana Golubenko, National Pedagogical University M. P. Dragomanov of Ukraine Pirogovа str., 9, Kyiv, Ukraine, 01601 PhD, Associate professor The department of theory and technology of social work

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