FUTURE PRIMARY SCHOOL TEACHERS TRAINING FOR PUPILS ECONOMIC UPBRINGING

Abstract

The paper focuses on one of the issues of training highly qualified specialists of the modern school, that is, training future primary school teachers for the economic upbringing of younger pupils in the context of globalization processes. The author emphasizes the significant gap between the real state of affairs in general secondary education, higher education institution and today’s challenges, as well as the lack of coordination between them, which does not allow one to provide the economic component of professional teacher training. There appears to be a need to cultivate economic consciousness and thinking, as well as to ensure initial economic training of pupils. Such qualities as entrepreneurship, responsibility, organization and thrift are of great importance. Economic education as a socially valuable quality allows one to use time rationally, creates conditions for raising interests in high-performance and efficient work, helps calculate the family budget properly and manage the household. Economic culture as an integral part of general culture should be cultivated from early years in school. Primary school teachers play an essential role in solving this particular issue. Their purposeful training depends on the quality of training and upbringing of young people, as well as full inclusion in life and effective work under modern conditions of social development. Thus, one can conclude that professional training of future primary school teachers is not focused on the development of economic knowledge in younger pupils. In this case, economic self-study presented to younger pupils based on their life experience is likely to have negative results since it does not offer pupils different approaches to solving this or that issue. The introduction of primary school counselling, didactic and economics in the curricula for training future primary school teachers should have a positive impact on their expertise and ability to provide quality education and upbringing of pupils.