Abstract
Abstract. In the context of integration of national education systems into a single global educational space, the competency-based paradigm of education serves as the main for training competitive strategy specialists. The transition to competency-based educational standards of higher education involves the formation of students' professional competences for successful professional activity. The aim of the research is to study and analyse the experience of development of professional competences in the training of social pedagogues in Kazakhstan, Lithuania, and Germany. In this paper, the study and comparative analysis of the experience of forming professional competences in the training of social pedagogues in Kazakhstan, Lithuania and Germany are carried out. The research showed that during the period of study at the University in the specialty "Social pedagogy and self-cognition", it is necessary to introduce a competency-based approach aimed at the formation of professional competences for working in an inclusive education. As a result of the research, the nature and trends of training social pedagogues in three countries are identified, then general and special competences of social pedagogues are analysed; finally, the professional competences adopted by the world community are highlighted.