METHODICAL MODEL OF A GEOGRAPHY TEXTBOOK CREATION IN UKRAINE

Abstract

In the previous issues of Problems of a Modern Textbook, the author of the article repeatedly discussed scientific and methodical bases of the use of different methodological approaches in teaching and the ways of their implementation through the structure and the content of textbooks on geography. This article is based on the accumulation of the previous material and its synthesis
by forming the methodological models of a textbook on geography of Ukraine. Scientific novelty lies in the fact that a set of methodological approaches was first implemented in the subject methodology in the course “Geography “Ukraine in the World: Nature, Population”, which reflects the trend of globalization and national identity, relaying the information about the nature and the population of our country in the global context. In its turn, it allows to create the pupils’ geographical picture of the world through the prism of Ukraine, their homeland. To some extent, these approaches highlight the role and the place of geography
in the acquisition of the meta-subject knowledge. Besides, the article demonstrates the design and the implementation of the methodological models of a geography textbook for the 8th grade pupils at the secondary schools. It is noteworthy to state that this textbook model is formed on a curriculum basis. Its important element is applying to 5 approaches: personality-oriented, competence-based, activity-based, regional and problem approaches. In a textbook, their reflection leads to the certain prerequisites for intensifying the educational process at the geography lessons, directs it to that or another areas of the pupils’ creative activity, makes it possible to take into account their educational needs and personal orientation as well as the vector of the personal orientation in the formation of the geographical picture of the world. The combination of these components of the model creates conditions for the introduction of geographical education on the basis of the child-centered approach.