Accessible environment: structure and content of professional competencies

Authors:

Ponomarenko Gennadiy Nikolaevich — Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Honored Scientist of the Russian Federation, Grand PhD in Medical sciences (Dr. Med. Sci.), Professor, Director General of the Albrecht Federal Scientific and Educational Centre of Medical and Social Expertise and Rehabilitation, 50 Bestuzhevskaya Street, 195067 St. Petersburg, Russian Federation; Head of the Department of Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine of the North-Western State Medical University named after I.I. Mechnikov, 47 Piskarevskiy Avenue, 195067, St. Petersburg, Russian Federation; e-mail: ponomarenko_g@mail.ru; https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7853-4473.

Miroshnichenko Oksana Anatolyevna – PhD in Psychological sciences (Cand. Psy. Sci.), Director of the Federal Resource (Information and Methodological) Center for the Formation of an Accessible Environment for the Disabled and Other Low-mobility groups of the Population, Albrecht Federal Scientific and Educational Centre of Medical and Social Expertise and Rehabilitation, 50 Bestuzhevskaya Street, 195067 St. Petersburg, Russian Federation; e-mail: miroshnichenko_oa@frcds.ru; http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6327-1567.

Ivashkina Yulia Yurievna – Deputy Director of the Federal Resource (Information and Methodological) Center for the Formation of an Accessible Environment for the Disabled and Other Low-Mobility Groups of the Population, Albrecht Federal Scientific and Educational Centre of Medical and Social Expertise and Rehabilitation, 50 Bestuzhevskaya Street, 195067 St. Petersburg, Russian Federation; e-mail: ivashkina_yu@frcds.ru; https://orcid.org/0009-0009-2127-3028.

Annotation:

Introduction. The Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, provides for the creation of conditions for the unhindered access of persons with disabilities to social, engineering and transport infrastructure, recreation facilities and services provided in them, providing opportunities for them to exercise civil, economic, political and other rights and freedoms. The high social importance of creating accessibility conditions for people with disabilities in the Russian Federation determines the need for competent managers and specialists. At the same time, the system of training and advanced training in the field of providing an accessible environment is characterized by fragmentation, which is due to the priority of specialized education in specialties and areas of training. The lack of representation, fragmentation and inconsistency of qualification characteristics in terms of the functionality to provide an accessible environment in professional standards determines the need for their systematization and uniformity.
In this regard, it seems advisable to streamline the description of labour functions, labour actions, skills and knowledge in the format of a professional competence map in the field of an accessible environment with the possibility of its use for the personnel training system and employers.

Aim. Development of a structure for a map of professional competencies in the field of accessible environment for people with disabilities and people with limited mobility, taking into account approaches to understanding the essence and content of the concept of “accessible environment”, and applicable to describe the qualification characteristics of employees charged with solving certain issues in this area, at the intersectoral and interdisciplinary levels.

Materials and methods. The research applied the methodology of the general scientific dialectical method of cognition, universal scientific methods.

Results. Taking into account the analytical information, the structure of the map of professional competencies in the field of accessible environment has been developed, tested by employees of social organizations in 4 subjects of the Russian Federation and during the All-Russian educational seminars on accessible environment, which were attended by 15,610 specialists from 84 regions. To form a map of professional competencies in the field of accessible environment, the main structural elements have been identified. 4 thematic areas have been identified: essence, content, characteristics; auxiliary tools and technologies; regulatory legal provision of accessibility; organizational and managerial provision of accessibility.

Discussion. Consideration of the accessible environment in relation to various life circumstances and industries in both broad and narrow senses leads to inconsistency, lack of system, fragmentation, which affects government policy in this area. The involvement of a sufficiently large number of scientific fields in an accessible environment requires further elaboration of concepts at the interdisciplinary and intersectoral levels.
The study of approaches to understanding the essence and content of the concept of “accessible environment”, used both in regulatory and technical documents, as well as in scientific research, served as an orientation for identifying the key components of the map of professional competencies in the field of accessible environment, which can become the basis for changes in professional standards and professional educational programs.

Conclusion. The structure of the map of professional competencies in the field of accessible environment proposed by the authors can become one of the tools that makes it possible to systematically characterize the professional activities of specialists related to common accessibility tasks in organizations of various industry and departmental affiliation.

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