Formation of ecological worldview of future teachers of geography when studying the course

Hryshko Svitlana Viktorivna

Candidate of Geographical Sciences, Associate Professor Associate Professor of Physical Geography and Geology Bohdan Khmelnytsky Melitopol State Pedagogical University

Formation of ecological worldview of future teachers of geography when studying the course

«physical geography of continents and oceans»

The course «Geography of Continents and Oceans» has a special place for professional education of future teachers of geography. It is a basic course in the system of physical-geographical disciplines of pedagogical institutions of higher education [3, 4]. At Bohdan Khmelnytsky Melitopol State Pedagogical University named after, this course is taught at the Faculty of Natural Geography to students of III-IV courses, according to the curriculum of specialty 014 Secondary Education (Geography) in V-VII semesters in the amount of 390 hours (13 ECTS credits).

Environmental education is an important part of society's implementation of the strategy of rational use and protection of natural resources. In this regard, the readiness of a student geographer for environmental education at school is considered one of the most important tasks of his professional and pedagogical training. The course «Physical Geography of Continents and Oceans» has great opportunities for its implementation. It has a factual basis for solving many problems of environmental education and education of future geography teachers. Unlike other geographical disciplines, it differs in that the study of the nature of continents and oceans successfully correlates competent and regional review of the nature of the Earth at the planetary and regional levels.

The ecological principle used in the course «Physical Geography of Continents and Oceans» is considered by the author as an interdisciplinary approach in the study of the rational interaction of various objects of nature and society. Its importance in teaching is increasing due to the trend of greening of geographical science. The methodological basis of environmental education is a scientific approach that defines the theory, purpose of the problem and didactic components of the ecological worldview. Therefore, the basis for environmental education and upbringing of students is a dialectical interpretation of scientific knowledge. It equips students not only with knowledge of objective laws of functioning and development of nature and society, interaction between them, but also provides in the process of learning the formation of ethical norms and environmental culture, aimed at rethinking their position in nature and forming a system of knowledge. This requires that environmental issues cover all topics of the course. This provides opportunities to more fully deepen and expand students' environmental and geographical knowledge and develop the skills and abilities they need for environmental work at school. However, environmental issues and the conceptual apparatus are poorly reflected in curricula and textbooks on the physical geography of continents and oceans, so the formation of environmental concepts in the study of the course is based on the widespread use of interdisciplinary links, local lore [1, 6].

The development of the basics of environmental culture in the educational process is possible only with a deep scientific content of the material studied using appropriate teaching methods that provide mastery of the system of scientific environmental knowledge [2].

Greening of geographical knowledge and involvement of students in environmental work at school is carried out not only in lectures and practical classes, but also by preparing assignments, term papers and dissertations and internships in secondary schools.

Lectures and practical classes on the characteristics of the components of nature, landscape complexes that make up the main content of the course

«Physical Geography of Continents and Oceans», thoroughly analyze regional environmental problems that arise during development and anthropogenic changes in natural conditions in different continents and the oceans (Sahel, Mediterranean Sea, etc.). Thus, when identifying the causes of environmental crises, a comprehensive approach is used, which includes analysis of physical- geographical and socio-economic conditions of their occurrence [5].

In the process of forming the ecological worldview, students focus on the participation of Ukraine in the implementation of international programs for nature protection, the inconsistency of statements about the inevitability of ecological catastrophe as a consequence of scientific and technological progress. In order to ensure the unity of environmental knowledge and the needs of students in the aesthetic relation to nature in lectures and practical classes used fiction, paintings and other sources.

Thus, the environmental training of students in the course «Physical Geography of Continents and Oceans» is an integral part of the formation of a unified system of environmental education, upbringing and culture of the future teacher of geography.

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