Anna Vershinina

Opportunities for the development of social competence of the head of a preschool educational organization through pedagogical design seem to be a pressing issue in the context of modern sociocultural transformations. This is due not only to humanistic principles, focused on value-moral and active understanding of professional activity, but also taking into account national-cultural characteristics and regional aspects of pre-school education system in a single educational discourse. One of the problematic components in the light of the proposed research seems to be an insufficient level of reflection of social competence as a component of the professiogram of the head of an educational organization. The main research methods of the proposed problem are the analysis and typology of existing approaches in domestic and foreign scientific research to the definition of formal-functional signs of social competence, as well as the questionnaire method, which allows us to determine the degree of the professional community awareness and interest in this aspect. The decomposition of this phenomenon in the light of modern research allowed us to identify a number of components, such as information-cognitive, motivational and value, communicative, social and personal ones. As the observations show, heads show much concern for the information-cognitive and communicative components, while the motivational, axiological and socio-personal components remain outside the zone of attention in professional activities. The research allows us to put forward pedagogical design as an optimal method in social and professional activities, influencing the development of social competence, improving the quality of professional functions in cooperation with the social partners of an educational organization. It is necessary to conduct further research that will allow us, to develop methods for incorporating into the process of pedagogical personnel training the formation of social competence in the context of all its components census.