Functional Literacy vs Regional Component: From Concept to Design and Development of Tasks

Abstract

The article is devoted to the issues of functional literacy as a competence of the individual, which reveals itself in situations of everyday existence and social interaction. The authors consider the region as a resource environment for the development of a teacher who is able to form the functional literacy of a student, as well as a space for the formation of global competencies, creative thinking and reading literacy of students. In the course of the study, the main methodological principles were applied, allowing to make the transition from the idea of the significance of the regional space for the formation of functional literacy through the design of tasks in the Omsk linguocultural space to the formation of prototypes of universal tasks, demonstrate a consistent change in the procedures of deduction and induction. The modern school actively includes a regional component in the educational process, relying mainly on the local history aspect. The authors of the article substantiate the close relationship between the regional component of the content of education and the tasks of developing functional literacy. Based on texts with regional content, they prove that assignments based on regional language material can be effectively used to develop functional literacy in general and its individual components: global competencies, creative thinking, reading literacy. At the same time, the authors also note the shortcomings of regional material — the lack of universality, binding to the territory, outside of which it loses its relevance and influencing potential. The authors offer methodological developments (methodological modules) based on the Omsk material, which are based on an invariant that allows variation depending on the region of study. The article describes and comments on the experience of holding philological events (the Russian language Olympiad “Philological Journey through Omsk and the Omsk Region”, the festival of languages and cultures “Under the Sky of the Irtysh Region”), discusses the prospects for educational events of a regional orientation, concludes that such events are promising for development of functional literacy of students.