DEVELOPMENT OF SOFT SKILLS IN THE PROCESS OF TRAINING FUTURE SOCIAL EDUCATORS

Abstract

The article examines the process of forming soft skills, carried out during the future social educators’ university training. Immediately before considering this process, the relevance of such competencies among modern professionals in general and future social educators in particular formation is investigated. It is proved that the soft skills development among the modern university students is one of the key conditions for their competitiveness in the future. The researchers reveal the essential characteristics of the term “soft skills” and the role that their development and formation plays in the future professionals, including social educators, adequate to the requirements of modern society, professional training. The most optimal ways of forming such skills in the future social educators professional training process are proposed.