EDUCATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC PROFESSIONALLY ORIENTED PRACTICE: THEORETICAL AND METHODOLOGICAL ASPECTS AND EXPERIENCE OF PRACTICE

Abstract

Educational geographic professionally oriented practice occupies an important place among the educational practices of students-geographers. It facilitates the consolidation of theoretical knowledge on the fundamental geographic disciplines acquired in the classroom, their application in conducting field expeditionary research, and the formation of the skills of the latter.

Students of the Department of Geoscience and Geomorphology of the Faculty of Geography of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv have it after the second year of study. Practice is conducted on the territory of Ukraine or abroad and holds the position of one of the most interesting practices for students. The article presents the author's experience of carrying out this practice (started in 2010), examines the main theoretical and methodological aspects of practice, formulates its purpose and objectives. Practice is conducted in three stages – preparatory, review (route) and office. During the preparatory stage organizational and technical issues are solved, the route of practice is developed, a comprehensive geographic analysis of it is carried out, places and objects of detailed field research are determined, students receive individual tasks. The review stage is the main one during the practice, it is used to complete the planned route, conduct field research, collect actual material (samples of rocks, minerals, herbarium, etc.). The general route is divided into separate radial routes. During this stage of practice, students make individual diaries, which are used when writing a report. The practice is finished after the office stage is completed, the main task of which is writing a comprehensive report and summing up the practice. The article examines the experience of conducting a review stage of educational geographic professionally oriented practice, which is versatile according to the authors of the article: different routes within Ukraine, a foreign route, a localized urban ecosystem. The experience of practice outside of Ukraine (Ukraine – Poland) is highlighted in a number of publications (including co-authorship) by the authors. They are briefly described in the work. The route option for conducting a review stage of practice within Ukraine on the general routes Kyiv – Ostroh – Lviv – Uzhhorod – Mukacheve – Khust – Rakhiv – Kyiv and Kyiv – Lviv – Chernivtsi – Kamyanets-Podilskyi – Kyiv is considered in more details. The experience of conducting a review stage of practice within the urbanized territories on the example of Kyiv and its suburbs is also analyzed, and the advantages and disadvantages of the «localized» review stage are noted.

It is emphasized that the route form of the review stage is the basis for the educational geographic professionally oriented practice, is important from the point of view of the competence approach to the training of students-geographers, facilitates the formation and development not only of their professional skills but also the expansion of the outlook in general.