Professional-personal development of socionomic specialists within the system "college - university - postgraduated education"

In modern Russian reality the agenda of modernization for the system of continuous professional training ("College – University – Postgraduate Education") for the specialists of socionomic ("helping") profile is of great importance. Such specialists are: social pedagogues, social workers, psychologists, experts in social work, doctors and lawyers for social services, tutors, pedagogues-psychologists, etc. The article proves the need to intensify the process of professional and personal development for socinomic profile specialists in the system of lifelong professional education, its recurrent character considering. The characteristics of the variants for professional-personal development of the socinomic profile such as conventional, altruistic, investigative, dominant and the process stages, such as reproductive-empirical, adaptive-heuristic, and resultative-productive selected in the course of research are presented in the article. Based on multivariate analysis of empirical data obtained as a result of many years of research work in a number of colleges and universities in Russia, the functional links of professional-personal development of a learner with individually-typological features of the potential socionomic expert (psychologist, social worker, social educator, etc.) were identified. Special attention is paid to the study of the motivational component of the process of professional-personal development, and it is viewed as a fact that empowers specialists to return in the educational system on various stages of their life. The article presents a set of conditions, principles, didactic and socio-pedagogical mechanisms that ensure the efficiency of the process of professional-personal development of "helping" profile specialists in the system "College – University – Postgraduate Education". The investigation results might be carried out to upgrade the system of recurrent professional training for socionomic ("helping") profile specialists.