EDUCATION AND UPBRINGING OF THE FUTURE SPECIALIST OF SOCIAL AND CULTURAL SPHERE
Russia is changing the strategic directions of development of the education system, including vocational education. In education in the context of globalization of the world community, it is necessary to take into account the deepening social differentiation of people and their not always conflict-free interethnic relations. The quality of education is associated with increasing the competitiveness of graduates, as well as with competencies related to life in a multicultural society. The article deals with the main characteristics of the educational policy in the University of culture, focuses on the pedagogical training of students as future leaders of institutions of social and cultural sphere. The complexity and specificity of professional activities of leisure organizers is its broad profile, which includes three interrelated areas: organizational, pedagogical and artistic and creative. In the educational process at the University of culture, along with the traditional applied new intensive and information technologies, there are forms and methods of education that determine the specific nature of socio-cultural education and contribute to the formation of pedagogical competence.