Development of Social Engineering Skills during Master’s Degree Training in Specialty “Social Work”

Abstract

The article substantiates the relevance of the formation of social engineering skills in the process of Master’s Degree training in the “Social Work” specialty in the context of public demand for specialists capable of projecting socio-political reality. The role of education, which in modern conditions is understood not only as a means of learning and assimilation of the surrounding world, but much more widely — as an inexhaustible source of generation of civilizational meanings of spiritual and physical existence, is studied. The role of the labour market as an indicator of the quality of training of specialists is shown, the competitiveness of which depends on the ability to quickly adapt to new conditions of production, the availability of appropriate professional and qualification potential and knowledge, which, under favourable socio-political and economic conditions, will provide an opportunity to effectively invest them in the development of the intellectual capital of society. The impact of the processes of globalization, democratization, and technologization of society on the actualization of fundamentally new, adequate to the challenges of the times, requirements for the training of specialists at the Master’s Degree has been revealed. It is pointed out the need for scientific substantiation of the intellectual and creative modus operandi of a Master’s Degree student and his personal and professional subjectivity as a key condition for further successful professional activity. It has been established that in the process of Master’s Degree training in the “Social Work” specialty, modern social trends in the construction and functioning of professional training systems are reflected, in particular, humanization, technologization, and internationalization of education. It is emphasized that the formation of social engineering skills, which is an integral part of the state-building discourse in the current domestic conditions, is an important component of the professional training of Master’s in the “Social Work” specialty in modern domestic conditions. Emphasized: social engineering in the context of the construction of socio-political reality makes it possible to design the technology of interdisciplinary research of a specific object using the procedure of building its ideal model by representing qualitative characteristics. Such an object can be a state structure, a civil society institute, a branch of a political party, a local self-government structure, etc. Key positions of foreign and domestic researchers regarding social engineering in its constructive connotation are highlighted