PRACTICAL TRAINING FOR STUDENTS IN SOCIAL PEDAGOGY, CARRIED OUT DURING STATE OF EMERGENCY
The article presents the organization and implementation of the training practice and pre-graduation training for Social Pedagogy students at the Trakia University in Stara Zagora. The state of emergency declared due to the COVID-19 pandemic imposed the research, development and implementation of new forms of training that were never before employed for educating the future specialists. It also defines new problems in the organization, tracking, and assessment of the training and demonstrates solutions that include the active participation of all representatives – academic tutors, mentors from the institutions, students from both forms of education (full-time and part-time). The article presents the results from an on-line survey, carried out among the students and draws conclusions about the effectiveness of the alternative organization of the training. The author also shares ideas about the inclusion of new elements in the organization an implementation of the practical training of future students.