Abstract
The paper considers the major aspects of improving the teaching of economic and geographical courses for students of the field 05.03.02 “Geography” in the interests of sustainable development. The study of the course “Economic and social Geography of Russia” is considered in detail as an example. Based on the analysis of documents regulating the learning process, scientific and pedagogical literature and generalization of the experience in teaching the course, current trends in selection of academic content, organization of educational process, system of evaluation of students’ achievements were revealed. Attention to the issues of sustainable development in the capture of all topics, an integrated approach to the study of industries and regions, the activation of students’ cognitive activity in all types of classes, the appropriate use of electronic, including distance teaching methods, ensuring evaluation transparency and accounting of students’ learning achievements meets the interests of sustainable society development.
Highlights
From the point of view of ensuring the sustainable society development, it is required to improve the quality and accessibility of education as a whole, increase students' awareness of sustainable development through the educational content, formation of critical and systemic thinking, holistic vision of the outside world, skills of interaction and problem solving [1]
The goal of our work is to summarize the experience of teaching economic geography for students studying in the field 05.03.02 “Geography”, to identify current trends in the selection of content and methods of educational process organization in the interests of sustainable development on the example of mastering the course “Economic and Social Geography of Russia”
When selecting the content of the “Economic and Social Geography of Russia” itself, it is necessary to consider the educational profile, the whole range of socio-economic and geographical courses included in lesson plan, to optimize the content through the active use of interdisciplinary connections, or integration of narrow courses into a complex one
Summary
From the point of view of ensuring the sustainable society development, it is required to improve the quality and accessibility of education as a whole, increase students' awareness of sustainable development through the educational content, formation of critical and systemic thinking, holistic vision of the outside world, skills of interaction and problem solving [1]. Economic and geographical courses are traditionally part of the basic training of specialists in geography and have a significant potential for improving the level of students' competencies in sustainable development. Their content and teaching methods do not remain unchanged. Some aspects of geographers' training, such as the role of individual courses and information technologies in the educational process, the formation of a number of personal qualities and professional competencies, including those in the field of sustainable development, are discussed in scientific articles and conference materials [8 – 14]. There is a contradiction between the need to improve the practice of teaching disciplines of professional training of studentsgeographers in accordance with modern requirements and interests of sustainable development and insufficient scientific and methodological development of this problem
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