Pedagogical Discourse

The Use of Bandura in Modern Art Projects: Revival of Traditions in the Modern World

2024-08-30T13:35:33+03:00

The article analyzes the historical and socio and political conditions of the emergence and development of bandura art in Ukraine, characterizes the main principles of the academicization of bandura performance, which began at the beginning of the 20th century and is connected with the activities of an outstanding Ukrainian figure, composer, writer, engineer, kobzar and designer of bandura Hnat Khotkevych and his followers. The review of the process of bringing the bandura art beyond the boundaries of the authentic Kobzar tradition, the introduction of the professionalization of bandura performance at various levels of education, the improvement of the bandura design, which had a significant impact on the change in the historical and social functions of this instrument at the turn of the 20th and 21st centuries, is carried out, the consequences of the Soviet intervention in the development of Ukrainian culture and the process of replacing the authentic content of bandura performance with a pseudo-bandura performance, which in modern studies has received the definition of a simulacrum of bandura art, are analyzed. The research examines the use of the bandura in artistic projects in the 21st century, which involves the application of knowledge about the methods of sounding the instrument, working with a microphone, stage image, choosing a location for a performance, public relations, promotion, etc. It is noted that bandura is used in related art forms, such as choreography, which promotes a deep emotional connection between a sound and movement, and in theatrical performances, where bandura becomes an important element of scenography and dramaturgy. The important idea of this article is that despite the long-term oppression and extermination of kobzarism by the Soviet government, its attempt to distort the deep essence of bandura art in Ukraine, it survived and regained both its authentic beauty and acquired other various artistic forms.

Application of AI Technologies in Teaching ESL and ESP at Agro-Technical Higher Educational Institutions

2024-08-30T13:35:40+03:00

The paper is aimed to contribute to lectures’ AI readiness and their understanding of potential benefits and drawbacks of AI technologies in order to integrate AI (namely, ChatGPT) into language education. The study offers recommendations on practical application of AI in teaching English as a Second language (ESL) and English for Specific Purposes (ESP) at agro-technical higher educational institutions, namely on localizing content, personalizing materials, developing specific language skills and soft-skills, introducing profession-specific learning materials and creating a comfortable learning environment. It discusses the impact of AI on language teaching, including its problems, concerns (plagiarism, bias, ethics, inequalities) and the ways it can transform language teaching and learning practices on condition of providing the AI readiness of both educators and learners.

Formation of Professional Competence of Future Physical Culture Teachers by Means of Innovative Health Care Technologies

2024-08-30T13:35:40+03:00

In the times of dynamic modernity, the received information changes at a dizzying speed, so an outdated source can often serve. Therefore, in the current educational process, it seems more important to seek to explore unexplored information and open new horizons than to simply accumulate knowledge. Therefore, there is a growing demand for the education of physical culture teachers, who are both inspirers and advisors, able to push away old patterns and implement innovative health care technologies.

In order to meet the new requirements, physical culture teachers must begin to take into account and use modern innovative health technologies in accordance with generally accepted teaching principles. Only a flexible and creative mind will allow to achieve a quick result to adapt to the rapid changes taking place in the world.

Based on the analysis of psychological and pedagogical literature, the generalization and systematization of the experience of professional training of future physical culture teachers, it was determined that the educational process should be aimed at a competence approach, which shifts the emphasis from the process of accumulating normatively defined knowledge, abilities and skills to the formation and development of the ability of future physical culture teachers to act practically and creatively apply the acquired knowledge and experience in practical activities.

In our study, innovative health care technologies that can be used in the educational process were presented, namely: «Endomondo», «Runkeeper», «Adidas miCoach», «Nike+GPS», «My Tracks», «Sports Tracker», «Workout Trainer», «TGFU Games», «Coaches Eye». The use of innovative health technologies in the educational and educational process forms the professional competence of future physical culture teachers and positive motivation for self-development, and significantly expands the range of pedagogical knowledge, abilities, skills and interests of future physical culture teachers.

Teaching English Through Movies: Theoretical and Pedagogical Aspects

2024-08-30T13:35:47+03:00

Some theoretical and pedagogical aspects of teaching English through movies are highlighted in the present paper. Its topicality is related to the overall aim set by any foreign language teacher: students’ motivation, their being interested in the educational process and development of communication skills. The basic goal of the article is to point up the most prominent pedagogical strategies the foreign teachers use in language classrooms to activate students in their developing language skills. The subject of the paper is English movies as the pedagogical tool of making a communication process ongoing, firstly, and embracing four language skills (listening, speaking, reading, and writing), finally. The objective and the subject of the article are deeply tied with the outlining the connection of movies with the development of students’ four language modalities; showing the relationship between movies and culture; describing the challenges in using English films in classes; illustrating numerous strategies foreign educators use. Five fruitful strategies (attracting attention, authentic, perceptive, linguistic, and confidential) have been revealed due to linguistic, pragmatic, discourse, socio-cultural and world competence. It is summarized that attracting attention strategy is deeply linked with the challenges both teachers and students deal with. Authentic strategy is associated with several didactic tasks at once (within the framework of competency-based approach). It has been found out the perceptive strategy is identified with teachers’ intentions and objectives they set, on the one hand, and students and teachers’ comprehension of movies being implemented in the educational process to develop language skills, on the other hand. The linguistic strategy is bound with the various grammatical topics which can be presented in English classes with the help of movies. The confidential strategy implies the use of productive and constructive methods to raise students’ confidence in learning English, the audio-visual approach is being noticeable.

Professional Training of Future Masters – Teachers of Ukrainian Language and Literature: Purpose, Tasks, Structure

2024-10-28T17:27:56+02:00

The peculiarities of professional training of future teachers of the Ukrainian language and literature at the stage of Ukraine's integration into the unified European educational space have been elucidated, the main elements of the structure of training of the applicants for the second (master's) degree of higher education have been presented in the article. The works of scientists and legislative documents on the investigated problem has been analyzed. The attention has been drawn to the fact that the informational and content, psychological and pedagogical, methodological and technological support of the educational process affects the effectiveness of the formation of professional competencies of future masters. The contradictions that arise in the process of training masters have been outlined and characterized and the ways to overcome them have been presented. The following general scientific methods have been used to implement the purpose and objectives of the article: analysis, synthesis, induction and deduction, systematization and generalization, analysis of literary sources, regulations and legal acts, and comparative analysis. The purpose, goals, orientation and emphasis of the educational and professional program “Secondary Education (Ukrainian Language and Literature)” of the second (master's) degree of higher education in the specialty 014.01 Secondary Education (Ukrainian Language and Literature), which is implemented in the educational process of Khmelnytskyi Humanitarian and Pedagogical Academy, have been revealed. The general and professional competencies, which are provided by the educational and professional program, have been highlighted. The basic principles of organizing the training of masters of Ukrainian language and literature based on the analysis of the curriculum and the educational program have been determined, the list of educational components and the volume of the program in ECTS credits have been presented. Various aspects of the professional training of lexicography teachers have been studied: teaching and educative activities, organization of research and independent work, conducting various types of practice. The content and main tasks of educational and industrial practice have been clarified, the peculiarities of organizing the independent work of master's students, its types, forms, principles and optimal conditions for the qualitative performing of assigned tasks have been analyzed. Emphasis is placed on an integral component of training highly qualified teachers of Ukrainian language and literature – the performance of qualification (master's) thesis (on a current problem of the educational sphere); the purpose, tasks and requirements for the procedure for defending qualification works have been clarified. The necessity on expanding the boundaries of philological knowledge and familiarizing future teachers of Ukrainian language and literature with new linguistic and literary studies have been emphasized. The author's vision of the modern training of future lexicography teachers is based on the introducing of a competency-based approach to teaching master's students. In order to implementing the main task of the educational and professional program – training of highly qualified teachers of the Ukrainian language and literature – the key competencies have been identified: social and personal, general scientific, instrumental, professional. Future research in this direction covers various aspects of the content component of professional training of future teachers of Ukrainian language and literature, as well as the identification and research of the most optimal methods, techniques and forms of performing various types of educational, educative, researching and independent work of master's students.

Speech Culture of Lawyers in the Texts of Documents

2024-10-28T17:28:04+02:00

The article examines the issue of lawyers' speech culture, defines the role of lawyers' speech culture in the texts of documents. The culture of speech is one of the priorities of the national revival of Ukrainian culture in general, because language is not only a carrier of information, but also a driver in solving all issues and in raising the culture and spirituality of the people. Therefore, knowledge of the Ukrainian language and its use in the professional sphere is not only a guarantee of mutual understanding, but also a lawyer's business card, because the lawyer's literacy and education, his ability to submit material in accordance with language norms and standards are the key to success in every case. Recommendations are offered to improve the level of speaking culture of lawyers in the texts of documents, in particular: mastering the literary norms of the modern Ukrainian language in accordance with the current spelling, forming the skills of the culture of the written language, the ability to accurately, logically and consistently, concisely and expressively, in accordance with the conditions of communication, express one's own opinions, convey the necessary information, improve the communication skills and skills of speakers and create the texts of documents. It is noted that the speech culture of a lawyer in the texts of documents is not only a representative of his linguistic and communicative capabilities, but also a representative of his professional and personal skills and abilities, because the text of the document not only requires compliance with certain rules regarding its drafting, but also knowledge of the norms of the literary language, the ability to use language clichés, clearly and correctly formulate an opinion, accurately and logically present the material, as well as adhere to ethical rules for composing relevant texts.

Tasks for Developing Creative Thinking in Pupils and Students Through Mathematics Learning

2024-10-28T17:28:04+02:00

This article addresses the development of creative thinking in pupils and students during mathematics instruction through the use of specially designed tasks. The purpose of the article is to highlight the types of mathematical problems that should be used for the development of creative thinking of pupils and students, to check their effectiveness in the process of teaching mathematics. The study presents a system of creatively oriented tasks known as «Rich tasks». These tasks are categorized into open and integrative tasks. Open tasks are further divided into problem situations, open-ended tasks, and research tasks. Integrative tasks include those that help students establish content and conceptual connections between different sections of school mathematics, systematize and generalize knowledge, and foster creative thinking. Additionally, integrative tasks encompass problems originating outside of mathematics but requiring mathematical methods for their solutions, as well as tasks that help students connect elementary mathematics with higher-level mathematical disciplines (such as mathematical analysis and linear algebra) studied concurrently or in the future. The analysis of students’ responses to Torrance’s Figural Test of Creativity supports the conclusion that the methodology of using creatively oriented tasks is effective. It was concluded that for the development of creative thinking of pupils and students in the process of learning mathematics, it is advisable to use Rich tasks. The main types of Rich tasks include open and integrative tasks. For the development of creative thinking of pupils and students, it is advisable to use such types of open-ended tasks as problem-situation tasks, open-ended tasks and search-research tasks. Also, in the process of teaching mathematics to pupils and students, it is advisable to use such types of integrative problems as problems, the solution of which helps students to understand the content and conceptual connection between separate sections of school mathematics, problems that arose outside the boundaries of mathematics, but their solution requires use of mathematical methods. And for students, it is advisable to offer this type of integrative problems as problems, the solution of which contributes to the establishment of connections between elementary mathematics and the disciplines of higher mathematics. As the results of the experimental study showed, the students' activity of recognizing, classifying, solving and creating from open and integrative Richtasks positively contributed to the development of the ability to analyze, compare, pose a problem, generate new ideas, classify, draw conclusions, establish relationships between elementary and separate sections higher mathematics, flexibility and originality.

Teaching a Foreign Language in Institutions of Higher Education in the Context of Digitalization

2024-10-28T17:28:15+02:00

The article examines the influence of the digitalization process on the study of foreign languages in an academic educational environment. The following methods were used in the study: a review of the scientific and pedagogical literature on the researched problem, which made it possible to describe and detail the conceptual foundations of the study, to systematize and summarize the theoretical and empirical data used to outline the real state of application of digital technologies in teaching foreighn languages; analysis of the process and products of activity - examples of tasks aimed at the development of various types of competencies of education seekers with the use of ICT are given; the inductive method, according to which scientific research was carried out in the direction «from the analysis of individual material to generalizations and conclusions», and the theoretical foundations were substantiated in detail and illustrated with practical data. The authors analyzed the concept of «digitalization», which is unification of computer, electronic, information, information and communication and telecommunication technologies; focused attention on the latest digital technologies and proposed effective ways of using them at foreign language classes. It was found that ICT competence is one of the priorities in the preparation of future specialists for the high-quality implementation of professional services in the information and digital space, and which implies, in the context of scientific research, the ability of participants of the educational process to use digital resources appropriately when learning foreign languages; the main constituents of ICT competence are defined: general, diagnostic and subject-oriented competences. Examples of tasks aimed at the formation of various types of competences during foreign language learning with the involvement of digital tools are given, and the most common forms of conducting classes using ICT are presented. It is emphasized that digitization modernizes the process of mastering foreign language communicative competence, contributes to more effective and in-depth study of the content of educational material, optimization of the level of self-education of future specialists, ensures their motivation and interaction of all participants of the educational process.