THEORETICAL AND PRACTICAL ASPECTS OF COMPETENCE EDUCATION OF GEOGRAPHY AT SECONDARY SCHOOL

Abstract

The modern geographic education, like the whole education system of Ukraine, is under reform. These processes are featured by the transition to the principles of a new educational paradigm. Therefore, the issue of the implementation of the competence-based training in teaching practice is becoming more topical. In this article, the author bases on the test results of the secondary schools pupils, the interviews hold with teachers and observations provided by teachers. In the result of a study, the socio-educational view was considered in the regard to the important changes in the methods of teaching geography aimed at the implementation of the competence-based approach and transforming the content of geographical courses on this basis. In this regard, the change in the role of a geography teacher in the educational process is considerably important. The author states that the methodological core of the competence-based training is the child-centered approach. In the modern methods of teaching geography, the competence-based approach is identified as a priority. Therefore, the article focuses on the theoretical and practical aspects of the formation of the key and the subject competencies of the secondary schools pupils at the geography lesson. One of the factors is the accumulation of their experience in creative activity, the development of values and the formation of the geographical picture of the world in the pupils’ minds. Applying to the prognostics method, the author states that the role of geography in shaping the meta-subject knowledge will be reveled in a greater extent as a result of the study on the process of the formation of the key and the subject competencies.