Experience in Integrating the Labour Market and Education through Standardization of Professional Activities in Russian Social Work

Sizikova Valeria, Anikeeva Olga

Experience in Integrating the Labour Market and Education through Standardization of Professional Activities in Russian Social Work

Číslo: 4/2022
Periodikum: Sociální práce

Klíčová slova: social work, professional standards, educational standards, social education, modernization, sociology of social change, sociology of professions

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Anotace: OBJECTIVES: The research object was the links between the labor market and social education;

the purpose of the research is to study the impact of standardization of professional and
educational activities on the modernization of the social sphere and socio-economic development.
THEORETICAL BASE: The study is based on the concepts of social modernization and
structuration (Giddens), Sociology of Social Change (Shtompka) and sociology of professions
(Romanov, Yarskaya-Smirnova, Sargeant). OUTCOMES: The article analysed methods
of professional formation standards in social work, strategic perspectives, risks and barriers of
standardization were assessed. METHODS: the study was conducted from 2013 to 2020 in
various regions of Russia; questionnaire survey was used (N=1158; random quota sample); focus
group method (N=37); brainstorming (group 1 – N=26; group 2 – N=28), expert survey (N=257;
N=38; N=286; N=168; N=185); interviewing citizens-recipients of social services (N= 256), the
method of social modelling and design. SOCIAL WORK IMPLICATIONS: The experience
of modelling professional standards and their adaptation to educational standards allows us to
change the content of professional activity, to focus it on the current needs of citizens and the
activation of their social position, to change the vectors of development of social education, the
content of training and retraining of social work personnel.