Building Professional Competences of Social Workers through Distance Learning in the Context of the COVID-19 Pandemic

Лях, Тетяна Леонідівна; Спіріна, Тетяна Петрівна; Lekholetova, Мaryna; Shved, О. V.

doi:10.34916/el.2021.13.13

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“…Therefore, in the future, the concept of tolerance spread not only to the sphere of interreligious relations but also to the majority of social relations that arose due to the difference between people and communities, and cultures. In his work, the social educator is obliged to adhere to the "Declaration of the Principles of Tolerance", which was adopted by the UNESCO General Conference on November 16, 1995 (Lyakh & Spirina, 2021), even if some categories of clients do not attract the sympathy of specialists, but their political, religious and national characteristics, behavioural stereotypes and appearance are unusual. This means recognizing the differences between people, and the diversity of clients and showing tolerance for the manifestations of this diversity, but the reluctance to impose certain views and beliefs.…”

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Ethical Principles of Social Educator Activity

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2022

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The article reveals the importance of ethical regulation of the social educator profession. The ethical principles of socio-pedagogical activity recorded in the code of ethics are characterised by respect for the dignity of each person, priority of the client's interests, tolerance, trust and interaction in solving the client's problems, availability of services, confidentiality, compliance with the norms of professional ethics. The social educator activity requires moral regulation of society as a specially organised and regulated activity, which involves orientation towards personality, and individuality, revealing the essential forces of a person, providing him with comprehensive social-psychological-pedagogical help in solving personal problems, in realising himself as a subject own life The Code of Ethics focuses on the observance of such ethical principles of socio-pedagogical activity as respect for the dignity of each person, priority of the client's interests, tolerance, trust and interaction in solving the client's problems, availability of services, confidentiality, compliance with the norms of professional ethics. The moral aspect of the social educator activity is revealed through a system of moral values, virtues and goodness in behaviour, which guides the observance of the norms of professional ethics in the activity of a modern social educator.

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Ethical Principles of Social Educator Activity

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“…Ukrainian researchers T. Liakh, T. Spirina, M. Lekholetova, & O. Shved highlight the main advantages of information and communication technologies, emphasizing that they are one of the ways to increase the effectiveness of volunteering during the Russian-Ukrainian war, as the war reduced offline communication to a minimum (Liakh, Spirina, Lekholetova & Shved, 2021).…”

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E-Volunteering as a Possibility of Volunteer Activities During the Russian-Ukrainian War

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2023

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Volunteerism has long been woven into the lives of Ukrainians. Since 2014, some parts of the Ukrainian society began to volunteer in the military sphere. Since February 24, 2022, volunteering in Ukraine has received a new impetus. It is due to the possibility of online volunteering that many Ukrainians became volunteers in the Russian-Ukrainian war because not all of them were physically able to get involved in volunteer activities. This article defines the concept of volunteering and e-volunteering. It outlines the current data on the state of volunteering. The data of the author's study “Volunteering during the Russian-Ukrainian war. Search for opportunities”, which was conducted in July 2022 has been presented. The purpose of the study was to identify relevant e-resources for searching for volunteer opportunities. The result of the survey indicated the active growth of volunteer activity during the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine. According to the research data, the largest share of respondents gets information about volunteer opportunities through online resources, platforms, and volunteer chat rooms. The authors have presented available online resources to access e-volunteering. They also have provided links to the telegram channel (a platform-based cloud messenger), volunteer platforms, and websites that can help a novice volunteer become familiar with the areas of volunteer activity and identify his or her own associates.

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“…Moreover, due to their mobility, client orientation, and orientation to the implementation of practical social work, it was the centers of social services that accepted the initial request of citizens for information about a wide range of services including issues of evacuation and delivery of food kits to the restoration of documents and the search for rare medicines; issues of payments to internally displaced persons and psychological support in stressful situations. The growing number of information requests actualized the professional need to ensure prompt response of social workers to existing customer requests, to search for and moderate relevant, reliable, and verified information; to establish high-quality communication between various social services and volunteer organizations that ensure compliance with social guarantees and take care of specific categories of service recipients (Liakh, Spirina, Lekholetova, & Shved, 2021). In this situation, information and communication technologies (ICT) are effective tools for the social worker.…”

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Analysis of the Needs of Social Workers Regarding Their Utilization of ICT in the System of Provision of Social Services (Kyiv City, Ukraine)

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Спіріна²,

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The use of information and communication technologies (ICT) is an important element in the work of social workers. Recent progress in ICT creates fundamentally new opportunities for social work in the provision of social services, including high-quality and timely responses to the requests of vulnerable population groups and persons in crises. In the information sector, work in the social sphere requires knowledge and skills in effective search, accumulation, processing, storage, presentation, and transmission of data using computers and computer networks. A social worker must be able to use information and computer technologies both for self-development in the professional sphere and for organizing their daily practical activities and solving socially significant problems. Therefore, it is necessary to form and develop ICT competence in professional activities for the quality provision of social services. The purpose of the study is to determine the ICT tools used in the practical work of social workers in the provision of social services, the scope of ICT application, and the analysis of the needs of social workers in Kyiv regarding the introduction of ICT into the system of providing social services.An online survey of social workers of state and non-state organizations in Kyiv, which provide social services to vulnerable population groups and persons in crises, was conducted. The theoretical sampling method was used, which made it possible to formulate generalized recommendations regarding introducing ICT tools into the social services system. To determine the typical ICT tools and directions of ICT used in social work, an expert meeting was held with specialists of the Department of Information and Analytical Work of the Kyiv City Center of Social Services. Resource monitoring was used for the automated search of information on the Internet.The authors of the article researched the information and communication technologies used by social service providers in their work and highlighted the prospects of ICT tools in state and non-state organizations. The ICT tools that are most often used in the provision of social services have been determined as a result of a survey of social service workers of state and non-state organizations in Kyiv. These tools are grouped into three main categories: communication channels, information dissemination channels, and methods of building online service provision processes. The key needs of social workers regarding the use of ICT tools in the process of providing social services and the most typical challenges in the implementation of these technologies are presented in the article. The authors identified the advantages of using ICT in the provision of social services and proved the effectiveness of the use of electronic services as a quick and effective tool in the process of meeting the requests of vulnerable population groups. The prospects for the use of ICT in the provision of social services are highlighted as well. It has been shown that the use of information and communication technologies in the provision of social services will positively affect the quality of the provision of social assistance and social services. The use of these technologies by social institutions makes it possible not only to effectively respond to the challenges of the military situation in Ukraine but also to promptly respond to the requests and needs of social service recipients and provide them with quality services. The authors presented the main ICTs that can be used by social workers when providing social services.

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Building Professional Competences of Social Workers through Distance Learning in the Context of the COVID-19 Pandemic

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Ethical Principles of Social Educator Activity

Ethical Principles of Social Educator Activity

E-Volunteering as a Possibility of Volunteer Activities During the Russian-Ukrainian War

Analysis of the Needs of Social Workers Regarding Their Utilization of ICT in the System of Provision of Social Services (Kyiv City, Ukraine)

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