IMPLEMENTING THE CONTENT LINE ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND FINANCIAL LITERACY IN GEOGRAPHY: REGIONS AND COUNTRIES TEXTBOOKS AND GUIDES

Abstract

The article analyses the substantive possibilities of the geographical course «Geography: Regions and Countries» for the realization of key economic competences in it, through which it is possible to realize the cross-cutting content line of entrepreneurship and financial literacy. It is proposed to structure the conceptual content for the 10th grade Geography: Regions and Countries course, which most effectively implements the content line of entrepreneurship and financial literacy and can be used to develop didactic teaching materials and related teaching literature. The article also proposes a simulation variant to illustrate regional economic relations in the process. The «Geography: Regions and Countries» school course can help to consider economic processes and phenomena due to the diversity of regional differences in economic processes and phenomena in the world. This, on the one hand, illustrates the dynamism and variability of geopolitical processes, and on the other hand, realistically covers economic processes and phenomena. Continuing on the topic of studying the implementation of economic categories through geographical courses, given their peculiarities and specifications, the most important place can be taken by the course «Geography: Ukraine and the World», where, based on the spatial illustration of the components of the economy, many basic economic categories, processes and phenomena can be considered. On the other hand, the use of the above economic categories in the course «Geography: Regions and Countries» will allow not only to consider the spatial patterns of relationships between economic systems of different countries and regions of the world, but also to understand the essence of the flow of economic processes and phenomena and related causation. The proposed simulation model will link the spatial organization of regional and national differences in the global economy, on the one hand, and the economic processes and phenomena that underlie the spatial organization of the economy at regional or national levels.