The Technology for Forming Professional Reflection in Future Social Work Educators in a Higher Educational Institution

Abstract

The article analyzes the technology for forming professional reflection in future social work educators in a higher education institution. Given technology is described as scientific and theoretical basis for the optimal implementation of the tasks of professional training. This technology is considered as a set of regular, functionally related components which presents an integral system. Selected components in technology are divided into some blocks (goal-oriented, functional, informative, organizational, productive). This components provide an opportunity to represent more clearly the purposeful process of forming professional reflection in future social work educators in the higher education institution. They highlighted how social work educators' future work in agencies help them to operationalize social work values and ethics, develop an awareness of themselves as social workers, and enhanced their confidence.