Abstract: The present study is devoted to topical issues of designing of content of educational programs of the specialty "social pedagogy and self-cognition" taking into account requirements and recommendations of the international accreditation agency. It was considered the important elements of the content of vocational training of social pedagogues, also it was analysed foreign experience, there are presented the results of questioning of students on satisfaction with the content of the realized subject matters. The special attention is paid to a difference of activity of the social worker and social pedagogue, the analysis of researches of foreign European theorists in the field of social pedagogy. It is submitted the contents of curriculum and there are characterized the subject matters, reflecting the essence of training of social pedagogues in Kazakhstan. Research can be useful to the people, interested in preservation and improvement of quality of the higher pedagogical education.