A. V. Vishnevskaya

al-Farabi Kazakh national University,

 Kazakhstan, Almaty

E-mail: spskaznu@mail.ru



About the methods of teaching seminars in the discipline «Social protection of children and families» in institutions of higher education (the example of al-Farabi Kazakh national University).

 

The discipline of «Social protection of children and families» is included in the training of students of the specialty «Social pedagogy and self-cognition» in al-Farabi Kazakh national University.

Objectives of the discipline are the following:

• to demonstrate the role of the social pedagogue in the system of social protection of the rights of the child and family interests;

• to give understanding the socialization and upbringing of the child in modern society and the problems of family socialization;

• to summarize the international experience of socio-pedagogical work to ensure the rights of the child and family interests;

• generate ideas about a complex approach to the solution of problems of protection of family and childhood, to determine the main directions of socio-pedagogical work in this direction;

• to reveal the technique of research of problems in the sphere of protection of the interests of the family and childhood.

In teaching the discipline «Social protection of children and families» applied competence-based approach to monitoring and evaluation of learning outcomes.

At the end of the course «Social protection of children and families» the student must possess the following competencies:

• Know the legal basis of the human rights work of a social pedagogue, international legal documents, legislative and normative-legal acts in the sphere of protection of childhood and family in the Republic of Kazakhstan;

• be aware of current problems in ensuring the rights of the child and the interests of the family;

• Know the basic forms and methods of work social pedagogue in ensuring the social protection of the rights of the child and family interests;

• know the methods of diagnosing problems in the system of social protection of children and families.

• be able to provide emergency educational assistance and legal support to children and their families in difficult life situations;

• be able to use pedagogical analysis, goal setting, planning for the implementation of preventive work in this direction;

• be able to implement a comprehensive support in solving problems of social protection of childhood and family interests using socio-pedagogical tools.

• be skilled in the use of research tools to improve the efficiency of work on the protection of the rights and interests of the child and family;

• possess skills appropriate forms and methods of socio-pedagogical work, ensuring the achievement of results;

• to master the skills of self-education and reflection of own socio-pedagogical work.

The main task of the seminar on the subject «Social protection of children and families» shaping the future social teachers knowledge about the nature, direction, content and forms of the social protection of children and families, about the content of legislative acts, which constitute the legal framework of the state social policy in the Republic of Kazakhstan on issues of family and family education.

Training through seminars in the discipline «Social protection of children and families» is based on the competence approach. At the moment undoubtedly competence-based approach, as relevant as ever in training and education. The attractiveness of this approach lies in the fact that he has a strong practical orientation. In its framework the ultimate goal of all learning lies in the fact that man has mastered these behaviours, and bought a set of knowledge, skills and personal characteristics that will enable it to successfully carry out the activity, which he plans to do, that is captured by a set of necessary competencies [1].

In the discipline «Social protection of children and families» are actively used verbal, visual, and practical teaching methods. Among the above-mentioned methods of training, practice has shown that the most effective conversations, discussions, book and normative-legal documents, acts, decrees of the Republic of Kazakhstan, video, videos, diagrams, tables, analysis of real situations faced by social workers employed in the system of protection of family and childhood (public institutions and NGOs).

Seminars usually there is an alteration of individual communications students according to plan, with preparation, messages to students on the basis of group analysis articles, laws, regulations in the field of protection of family and childhood, exercises and analysis of pedagogical situations. I would also like to note the effectiveness of the application of seminars mind map.

The intelligence map, or mind maps (mind-maps) is displayed on the paper an effective way to think, to remember, to remember, to solve creative problems, as well as the opportunity to present and clearly Express their internal processes, information, make changes, improve [2]. Mind maps (original Mind maps®) - development Tony Busen known writer, lecturer and consultant on intelligence, psychology of learning and thinking [3, 4].

Create a mind map takes place in individual or group form. In the process of group problem analysis seminars, usually more applicable group form of work on a mind map. On the A3 sheet of paper, students are asked to create a mind map, for example, on the topic of Social services child protection and family in the Republic of Kazakhstan. Each student must call one or two known to him/her social service and voiced add information to the common mind map.

After social services named and listed in the General mind map (from the basic idea, in this case, from the main concept of «Social service» radiate under-ideas, for example, the names of the services), students begin to entering into a intellect-map information of the second level. This may be characteristic features, quality, departments, divisions, functions of social services. If necessary, draw arrows connecting different concepts in different branches. For clarity branches are numbered and added to the halos. Verbal images are supplemented by drawings, making a mind map more illustrative, schematic available for effective visual perception. Students then proceed to the protection they created mind maps. In addition to the intuitive side of the mind map can be still and auditory and tactile nature. For example, added to video or audio recording, the display of items that you can touch, feel kinesthetically.

The combination of information, easy to understand people with different representational systems, makes the mind maps on the discipline of «Social protection of children and families» the most memorable method of teaching, structuring, information processing, allowing each student to reach their intellectual and creative potential. Group work, in turn, has a positive effect, by teaching students to cooperate, to act cohesively together, sharing and changing if necessary managerial role. These qualities are developed in seminars, in the future allow students to become highly skilled, creative professionals, able to work in a team, able to learn fast.

Assignments, students formulate their own opinion and attitude to put forward at the seminar the problem. During the group discussion, General conclusions are formulated. Feedback is represented by a complex reflexive exercises, helps to consolidate the acquired knowledge and "feel" a workshop on an emotional level.

The demand for discipline «Social protection of children and families» due to the fact that in the course of its study is the formation of the students ' holistic, systemic understanding of the work of a social pedagogue in the system of protection of the rights of children, women and families.

 

List of used sources:

 

1.                  http://www.smart-edu.com/kompetentnostnyy-podhod-v-obrazovanii-i-obuchenii.html

 

 

2.                  Super thinking/ Translation from English. E. A. Samsonov; Hood. Reg. M. C. Draco. - 2nd ed. - Mn.: LLC «Potpourri», 2003.-304 S.: ill. + 16 C. on. - (Series «Live wisely»).

3.                  http://www.mind-map.ru/

4.                  The website of practical psychology «Psicologos»: http://www.psychologos.ru/articles/view/intellekt-karta