Education in Social Work and Didactics

Education in social work is the concern of authors of this paper. First, the social work is classified within the system of sciences, not only from the point of view of contemporary understanding but also from the point of view of development of discipline classification among individual science systems. The historical development of education in social work is explained then up to present days in Slovakia. Contemporary possibilities of education in social work within the territory of Slovakia, which is linked to the European context, are described in detail. After education description, authors of this paper deal with definition of relationship between pedagogy and social work through social workers’ competences and explain the importance of didactics for social work.