The International Scientific and Practical Conference "Innovative Methods and Technologies for Training Social Work Specialists" at the NAU

On 22 March, the Department of Social Technologies of the Faculty of Linguistics and Social Technologies hosted the International Scientific and Practical Conference "Innovative Methods and Technologies for Training Social Sphere Specialists" as part of the V International Symposium "Socio-Cultural Discourse of the Globalised World: Science, Education, Communication".

The conference was dedicated to reviewing, comparing and evaluating the effectiveness of innovative methods and technologies for training social workers. The plenary session was welcomed by Svitlana Timkina, vice-rector for Humanitarian Policy and Innovations, and Angelika Kokareva, deputy dean of the FLCS for Research and International Activities.

We would like to thank our foreign guests: Clarke Baim (UK), PhD, senior trainer in psychodrama psychotherapy (UKCP, BPA), director of the Birmingham Institute of Psychodrama in the UK. Alyona Saidel (Israel) - a certified psychologist (Israel), certified psychodrama therapist (Germany), member of IAGP (Int.) and ASGPP (USA) for interesting reports and support of Ukraine during the war; Tomasz Kuk (Poland), representative of the Chancellor of the Humanitas University.

And also to other colleagues for their informative presentations at the planning meeting: Alla Yaroshenko (director of the Educational and Research Institute of Youth and Family Policy and Social Work of the Mykhailo Drahomanov Ukrainian State University, professor, Kyiv, Ukraine); Lesia Khomenko-Semenova (candidate of pedagogical sciences, associate professor of the Department of Pedagogy and Psychology of Vocational Education of the NAU, Kyiv, Ukraine); Iraida Rudenko (associate professor of the Department of Fine Arts, Mykhailo Drahomanov Ukrainian State University; senior researcher at the Institute of Educational Problems of the National Academy of Pedagogical Sciences of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine);. Oleh Blinov (doctor of psychology, professor of the Department of Social Technologies, NAU, Kyiv, Ukraine); Iryna Savelchuk (doctor of pedagogy, professor of the Department of Social Technologies, NAU, Kyiv, Ukraine); Vitalii Rakovych (candidate of pedagogy, associate professor, head of the Department of Fine Arts and Design, Kherson State University, Kherson, Ukraine); Mykola Kulinsky (doctor of education, professor, head of the Department of Art and Design, Kherson, Ukraine), Mykola Levchenko (candidate of pedagogical sciences, professor of the Department of Cultural Studies, dean of the Faculty of Culture and Arts, Kherson State University, Kherson, Ukraine); Oksana Kravchenko (doctor of pedagogical sciences, professor, dean of the Faculty of Social and Psychological Education, Pavlo Tychyna Uman State Pedagogical University, Uman, Ukraine). Researchers, postgraduates and students had a lively discussion and asked questions about the presentations.

We would like to express our special gratitude to the organisers for preparing the International Scientific and Practical Conference.