Педагогические науки/6. Социальная педагогика.

Бецько О.С.

Національний технічний університет України «Київський політехнічний інститут»

Social Partnership in Education

Social partnership is a phenomenon of interdisciplinary research which dates back to the developments in the fields of economics, sociology and employment relations united by the formation of industrial society in the previous century [1, 2, 3]. In most European countries strengthening of partnership relations in various areas took place after the Second World War, but in Ukraine the term and phenomenon of social partnership appeared only in the 1990s. Broadly defined, social partnership is a type of interaction focused on the agreement and protection of interests of different social groups, layers and classes which aims at achievement (through dialog and civilized negotiations) of social consensus regarding growth of contradictions and conflicts [4, c. 203]. The most important principles of social partnership are multilayer cooperation, voluntary participation, equality, compliance with obligations, democracy, legitimacy, humanity, social solidarity, social fairness, respect, protection and agreement of partners’ interests, authorization of all participants, collaboration, social dialog, tolerance, compromise, consensus and neutrality [5, c. 20]. Many of these principles are used in education. Apart from high economic development, countries with recognized social partnership such as Germany, Belgium, Norway, Finland, etc. have democratic controls and tend to find compromise between confronting social groups which demonstrates high level of social development in general and political culture of society in particular, social relationships humanization, the growing role of nongovernmental organizations in achieving of social stability.

Social partnership is obligatory agreement of activities of all the parties on a particular legal platform reflecting its essence and content regulation tools which is equally topical for the educational field. Social partnership is defined as integration of interests of different social layers and groups, settlement of conflicts between them by means of consensus and mutual understanding and rejection of confrontation and violence. It is no coincidence that educational and cultural establishments are now initiators and participants of social partnership, facilitating reforms and consolidating society on its way to solve important social problems. Under the circumstances of humanization of modern education and updating its culturological constituents this idea is very popular. Education today is held as a system of educational services for the whole community which means that social partnership has become a national priority project. The aims and tasks of social partnership are reflected in the national educational conceptual foundation which says that it is a mutual institutional activity of different social groups resulting in prolific effects shared by all the participants of educational interaction. Employers and other customers ordering professional education should also be involved in social partnership to meet the requirements of modern labour market.

Implementation of social partnership in education is caused by the need [6, 7, 8, 9]:

- to reorganize education into the open social educational system aimed at solving significant economic, social and cultural problems;

- to increase social responsibility of educational management;

- to provide a balance between the number of working specialities personnel and university graduates being trained;

- to increase index of graduate employability by the acquired background;

- to teach social partnership skills to the students which might increase their competitiveness, foster the ability to analyze complex situations, make responsible decisions, negotiate social contradictions and avoid conflicts.

The analysis of literature made it possible to distinguish educational areas to implement social partnership [10]. These are: social partnership in the field of governing modern educational institutions; social partnership as a specific field of social life initiated by educational system, which participates in building of a society; social partnership with cooperation of educators and employers; social partnership as a framework of establishment a marketplace in career training; social partnership between educational institutions and their micro social medium (family, social, youth outreach and medical workers, police, volunteers, etc.); social partnership inside educational system (between different groups of this professional fellowship).

Thus, social partnership in education is seen as specific type of interaction between educational institutions and bodies of labour market, government and local authorities, nongovernmental organizations aimed at highest possible agreement and realization of interests of all the participants of this process. Social partnership between a teacher and a student is a kind of mutually-beneficial relationships, marked by the search and achievement of pedagogical consensus, implementation of professional interests of educational process parties by means of pedagogical support to increase a learner’s profile and his personal role in solving community problems as well as develop his personality [11, c. 8].

The advantages of social partnership in education are as follows: it provides purposeful development and improvement of situation for all the participants; it is being realized in the form of mutually rewarding cooperation between full participants; it is based on long term consistent foundation with mutual confidence in mind; it is a conflicts maintenance measure and a tool for their effective alleviation because it represents a system of relationships based on negotiations and search for acceptable decisions, where all the parties work for solving problems and implementation of accepted agreements on the basis of consensus; the priority of social partnership in education is agreed upon dialog facilitating making mutually acceptable decisions.

To sum up we will say that social partnership today is a type of interaction sought-after in various spheres of our life. Its effectiveness and universality made it appealing in the field of education especially as modern education counts on multiple-vector, multifunctional cooperation with social medium.

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