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Training of Social Management Specialists for Participation in Social Innovation Teams
Training of Social Management Specialists for Participation in Social Innovation Teams

Author(s): Polina Stavreva-Kostadinova
Subject(s): ICT Information and Communications Technologies
Published by: UIKTEN - Association for Information Communication Technology Education and Science
Keywords: Social management; social innovation; higher education; leadership; encourage participation

Summary/Abstract: The main purpose of the research is to describe the elements of specialists’ personality development by incorporating it into social innovations team. The main assumption is that encouragement of self-inclusion, volunteering, and active implementation in educational group sessions are significant factors for the professional progress of the specialist. The contingent of the research is students in Department of Social and Legal sciences in Technical University of Varna, Bulgaria. The students were involved through interviewing, monitoring and evaluation of the performance of activities of the social work during the education program. The main findings refer to the extended functions of the social worker in early intervention, individual mobile assistance, community-based social services, home-based counseling and mobile social activities.

  • Issue Year: 7/2018
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 348-354
  • Page Count: 7
  • Language: English
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