PSYCHOLOGICAL BASIS OF FORMATION OF HOLISTIC SCIENTIFIC GEOGRAPHIC PICTURE OF THE WORLD IN HIGH SCHOOL CHILDREN’S MINDS UNDER PRESENT-DAY CONDITIONS

Abstract

The article is devoted, on the one hand, to the issue of new information studying in geography domain as a result of globalization systematic changes in the world, nature, society, as well as preparation of this information for geography textbooks for high school children. On the other hand, the article studies age psychological intellectual characteristics of adolescent children: abstract reasoning formation and other cognitive development features so that taking them into account in the education process form a holistic scientifi c geographic picture of the world under present-day conditions. The study gives examples of including latest geography information in the education process and its use to make high school children interested in subject Psychological study has shown that in the process of experimental teaching the anxiety and aggression level is reduced and children become more tolerant.