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This article is dedicated to the topical issue of environmental education as a holistic cultural phenomenon in the context of the professional training of future teachers. Environmental education is considered as a multifaceted process that integrates ecological knowledge with cultural, social, and ethical aspects of the interaction between man and nature. The methodological basis of the study was based on the integration of three scientific approaches to the consideration of environmental education as a holistic ...

Modern information educational technologies open up a wide range of opportunities for teachers of general education institutions to develop students' key competences in geography and ecology lessons. According to the federal state standard for geography, the requirements for subject outcomes of the geography course at the profile level should reflect the ability to work with geographic information systems. The existing level of information technology development allows geographic information systems to be adapted ...

This article explores the challenges and opportunities presented by the integration of GPT (Generative Pre-trained Transformer) models in higher education. It examines the implications for teaching methodologies, student engagement, and the potential risks associated with the reliance on AI tools in academic settings. It highlights the benefits of AI in providing personalized, efficient and flexible learning environments, enhancing student engagement, and supporting individualized learning. However, it also addres...

In today's fast-changing world, the link between engineering and environmental protection is very important for higher education institutions (HEIs). As global issues like climate change, resource loss, and biodiversity decline grow, there is an urgent need for professionals who have both technical skills and environmental awareness. These academic programs help create a skilled workforce that can design solutions focusing on ecological sustainability and promote teamwork, connecting engineering and environmental ...

Critical thinking skills are considered as a core competency development issue for future professionals who are preparing to carry out their professional activities in the context of information society and digitalization. It is believed that the role and specificity of critical thinking among future foreign language teachers has not been sufficiently explored. We consider it to be an innovative approach that implies a different understanding of the goals and implementation of the educational process and is relate...

In modern society, the urgency for environmental protection has emerged as a significant global issue. The increasing recognition of the harmful impacts of climate change and pollution has triggered a heightened emphasis on sustainable practices and conservation efforts. Consequently, the importance of foreign languages in promoting environmental protection initiatives has attracted notice within academic communities. The application of language can affect attitudes towards the environment and induce behavioral ch...

From a scientific point of view, the origins of design thinking can be traced back to the late 1960s. The very concept of "design thinking" appeared in the late 1980s and 1990s, when Rolf Faste began teaching design thinking as a "method of creative action" at Stanford University. Since then, various definitions of this concept have been added to the literature. Although design thinking is a business methodology, today it is widely used in the public, non-governmental, health and education sectors. With a view to ...

Eco-innovation is a crucial factor in the drive towards sustainable development, albeit a knowledge-intensive process that requires a fundamental transformation of the education system. The focus should be on sustainable education, characterized by holistic approaches, strategic planning and transformative change. Key elements are learning experience systems that include cognitive understanding, practical skills, social cohesion and emotional intelligence. As UNESCO points out, eight key competences - systemic thi...

The article considers the possibilities of using modern methods and tools in teaching the industry section of economic geography, in particular the geography of the fuel and energy complex. The authors propose to use methods and approaches that take into account the significant changes that occurred at the turn of the 20th-21st centuries during the transition from industrial to post-industrial society and the formation of modern information technologies. The article proposes to increase the involvement of schoolch...

This article deals with the development of intellectual abilities of students in the process of using geoinformation technology. Digital technologies, in particular geographic information technologies, are increasingly introduced in the educational process of modern schools. They contribute to the learning of mapping skills, the formation of skills to compare, specify, abstract, summarize, establish cause-effect relationships, draw conclusions, develop critical thinking, contributing to the formation of key compet...

Modern educational technologies offer great opportunities for teachers of general education institutions to develop key competencies in students in the geography and ecology classes. Curriculum guidelines in geography pay great attention to improving the skills of unsupervised activities, including using the resources of geographic information systems. The outcomes of mastering the main educational program should reflect the knowledge of geoinformation technologies as a tool for collecting and processing research ...

The purpose of the study is to substantiate the theoretical foundations of the creation and functioning of science parks. The theoretical foundations of the creation and functioning of science parks as innovative elements of the modern educational space are presented. The scheme of the territorial distribution of science parks in Ukraine was analyzed and systematized, their main functions were highlighted, and the peculiarities of the organization of science parks were revealed. The creation of the first science p...

In the context of the global environmental crisis the development of new pedagogical models and teaching methods at the universities of Ukraine is aimed at the formation of socio-psychological competencies of future specialists as subjects of the implementation of the concept of sustainable development. The article presents the results of eco-psychological research of the level of formation of ecological thinking among engineering students. More than 300 students from three universities of Dnipro and Poltava have ...

The problem of academic perfectionism in teaching technical English at a higher education institution stems from a number of external and internal factors - the current educational targets set by managing social groups and student ambitions. The research methods included the analysis of objectives, contents and teaching methods intended for the first and second year bachelor degree students. The findings show that the target competence, being focused on the technical English, also incorporates the ability to solve...

Previous studies have shown that secondary school students may have misconceptions about geological scientific information. By the end of secondary education these misconceptions may remain unresolved. As a result, students enter university studies and still hold them. Students of engineering, as for example civil engineering, are no exception. The aim of this study was to investigate and analyse misconceptions of this specific target group. A closed questionnaire was designed and given to 102 University students ...

Economic growth in Europe is causing environmental problems thus highlighting the need to minimize waste. Sustainable Development Goal 12 -Sustainable Production and Consumption- focuses on three aspects: waste management, energy saving and resource usage minimization. The aim of this study is to analyse the current needs for professional food waste management knowledge in European food production companies and develop waste minimization skills for food sector-s vocational education students. The study is based on...

The article discusses the issue of intergenerational tension in the collaboration of differently old colleagues. It is a follow-up to the outputs of the research project -Intergenerational Management in Support of Digitalization in the Building Industry- financed by Technological Agency of the Czech Republic. The author focuses on the problems of intergenerational cooperation and analyze the current situation from the point of view of generations division according to typical generational behavior. The solution is...

This article offers an innovative method for deriving curricula for tomorrow’s workforce in the geospatial sector, considering the market requirements through modelling business processes, identifying and analyzing occupational profiles. The idea behind this approach reveals business processes models described by workflows of tasks that workforce needs to master in their daily work. In addition, business processes show who is involved in projects and needs to communicate with one another, and how the information i...

The COVID-19 pandemic has caused large-scale institutional and behavioral "shock effects" in many fields of human activity, including education. All over the world more than 1.5 billion of students at schools and universities have been unable to attend classes from time to time [1]. Various countries and communities have been forced to look for quick decisions on digital learning platforms [2]. This gave a remarkable boost to online learning. At a time of crisis educational organizations should carefully think ove...

Conceptual models of the decision-making theory under conditions of deep uncertainty formed the basis for an empirical analysis of practical reality deviations from theoretical developments and justification of the need for the formation of appropriate competencies and behavioral patterns among the students of technical universities. The analysis of annual companies' reports in the section of risk assessment and management was carried out. The analysis is based on a text analysis methodology implemented in an open...

The existence and development of geography as a science, as well as the geography training are inconceivable without a geographical map. Geographic maps serve as models of the studied territories, processes and phenomena, which makes them an indispensable tool for exploring and studying the surrounding world. The development of cartography today reaches such a level that geographical maps can depict not only the spatial relationships between objects and phenomena located on the earth's surface, but also their most...

The minerals industry is facing a changing talent landscape. With digitalization and a transition towards a decarbonized economy, a mining industry necessitating new skillsets and with technology cycles that are getting shorter and shorter, the new panorama is transmitting pressure in the need of trained workforce, and mining companies need to ensure that their boards and staffs are properly constituted to support the transformations that the sector is currently undergoing, including fluency in such areas as techn...

The pollution, climate changes, loss of biodiversity and other factors have an impact on human health and is one of reasons to develop and try to come closer to the goals of sustainable development. The Agenda 2030 requires innovations and switch from linear economy to resilient and circular economy. To achieve sustainability there is a need for education for sustainable development. This term is actual already for two decades but still integration of education for sustainable development in study programs is a pr...

The article is devoted to innovation culture and its main factors, such as innovativeness and creativity. The authors determine innovation culture as a social phenomenon of society's readiness to implement different types of innovations and to use new ideas in production, marketing, management and education. It is justified that innovation culture manifests in creativity and innovativeness. Authors define creativity as the ability to transcend traditional ways of thinking or acting, and to develop new and original...

The article discusses the visualization of educational information as an approach to the development of a graphic language that exists as a means of communication, in our case, as a language of instruction and research along with the verbal language. One of the means of improving the professional training of future specialists in the conditions of the prevalence of the screen environment is the formation of their skills in visualizing educational information. In the visualization of educational information, great ...

Both in the Central Baltic (CB) countries and Russia, there is a need to develop current education regarding resource efficiency, which is a relatively new and complex issue. The aim of the paper is to present the results of the two parallel twinning international projects "CREA-RE" (Creating aligned studies in Resource Efficiency) and "CREA-RE-RU" (Creating aligned studies in Resource Efficiency in Sweden and Russia), which has been realized from 2018 to 2020. The main goal of the projects was to produce up-to-da...

Development of environmental education becomes a topical issue of educational policy and secondary school in Bulgaria. The efforts are mainly focused on integrating and promoting environmentally friendly activities for children in different age groups. The paper explores new approaches to stimulate motivation and extension of activities related to sustainable development and environmental protection; new methodologies with a similar focus are interpreted, and specific models for implementation are proposed. The pa...

The efficiency of teaching Earth Sciences to international students depends on many circumstances. In particular, it depends on the personal cultural and educational resources. All universities work on actualizing them, as the processes of educational systems internationalization are of great significance for all countries. International students have less cultural resources for completing university programs, if compared to local students, but the educational migration is increasing throughout the world. In 2018,...

The relevance of the research topic is due to the fact that tourist and oblast studies in Ukraine and its oblasts are especially in the light of recent events (the annexation of part of the country's territories by the Russian Federation (2014), the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic (2020) in the world as never before one of the most effective forms of gaining knowledge, developing creative thinking, practical skills and abilities, ensuring national-patriotic education of youth and schoolchildren, as well as expandi...

The article demonstrates application of distance learning in foreign language teaching at the Faculty of Manufacturing Technologies in Presov. The study of a foreign language is very closely connected with professional subjects. There is a close connection with many engineering disciplines within all study programs. The method of distance learning is an important part of the modern education. The implementation of blended learning to the study process is needed for the newly accredited study programs at the Facult...

The article is a summary of transforming geographic and environment research trends and shows new guidelines in the field of natural education in Ukraine in the context of the global process of sustainable development ensuring. It is argued that priority should be given to environmental studies, which will be considered exclusively in a set of three interrelated components. These are: 1) environment assessment as a natural area of society and analysis of its capacity to preserve the socio-economic and environmenta...

The level of geological competence of students studying in the areas of undergraduate studies ?Earth Sciences? and ?Pedagogical Education? (profiles Geography, Geography and Biology), determine not only the acquired theoretical knowledge and competencies, but also the ability to record and summarize field observations. The latter is formed in the process of a person's knowledge of the natural environment according to the didactic principle?- from the known to the unknown, from close to far. In Russia, it received ...

The problem of higher education is a priority for the strategic development of the professional land administration, cadastre and geodesy. Innovative development of the Russian economy requires the modernization of higher education aimed at preparing professionals who are proficient in modern digital and intelligent technologies at the level of world standards. Training of specialists in land administration and cadastre for the establishment of an effective land administration system in the country plays an import...

The aim of the article, in the pre-research issues, was to examine the scientific questions which cover the main ergonomic problems in the work environment of the training workplace for training of future air traffic controllers in the conditions of the educational institution. The methodology of researching the problem to achieve the goal of the article was based on an expert method, on a guided interview with instructors of practical training for air traffic controllers to obtain an expert opinion on identifying...

The current methodology of geography training in secondary school is aimed at finding opportunities for the implementation of an effective educational process. Recent studies prove the effectiveness of the so-called outdoor lessons. And this is no coincidence, given their impact on learning motivation in training process. They practically operationalize the methodological principle of "learning through experience", especially relevant to modern didactic. However, how can this type of lesson be organized in the con...

The article discusses the information-cartographic approach to the visualization of educational information as a universal educational strategy aimed at the full development of cognitive processes, the imaginative thinking of students, taking into account the functional asymmetry of the cerebral hemispheres through the use of intellectual and graphic tools for visualizing educational information, creating a new communicative system of transition from verbal language to language grafting. The information-cartograph...

The need to make innovative changes in the professional training of students is due to the fact that today future specialists require not only deep knowledge, but also the ability to acquire new knowledge in a rapidly changing situation and use it to design their own activities. Recently, in the theory and practice of professional education, more and more attention is paid to active forms, methods and technologies of training, which can become an effective means of training specialists. The goal of innovation is a...

This study is intended to develop educational technologies for disabled students with violation of musculoskeletal system. According to the World Health Organization the statistical data on diseases of the musculoskeletal system accounts for 30% each 10 years, as for the percentage disablement due to this factor it accounts for 25-30%. The Global Burden of Disease study reported that musculoskeletal disorders are ranked as the second most common cause of disability. The disabled people?s problems related to the pr...

Sustainability is becoming an integral part of all aspects of life. Education for sustainable development (ESD) is rather a new educational paradigm and an important tool for achieving sustainability. The aims of ESD are well-established, but there are still significant challenges in finding the most efficient and strategic methods of achieving these objectives. Plurality of ESD perspectives and methodological approaches, as well as variations in practice also apply to integration in higher education. The complexi...

The article is devoted to the issues of communicative competence development at students of non-linguistic specialties, its role in adaptation, definitions of the concept, foreign-language components of communicative competence, a range of problems, methods, assessment of communicative competence level, the development of universal and general professional competences according to Federal State Educational Standard. The aim of this research is to identify and verify the most effective methods of communicative comp...

Many schools have long figured out that the internet can be a strong ally in the teaching of each subject. Those who are able to use its power offer online courses not only as a complement to mainstream studies, but as a full-fledged form of education for specific groups. Not only for full-time or part-time students, but also, for example, for people who are unable to relax at regular times or who prefer self-study at time, of their own choice. For this group, the school has undeniable advantages over the Internet...

The problems and challenges which contemporary world faces set the leading idea of ?sustainable development? as key aspect of geographic education. In the paper is used the well-known definition for sustainable development ? development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. As a result of these tendencies, it can be pointed out three very important concepts in geography didactic ? environmental education, global study and education for s...

The implementation of a competence-based approach in higher education suggests the reinforcement of personality-oriented education, the use of technologies that demonstrate the personal growth of the student, and the formation of professionalism. For this purpose, traditional teaching methods are complemented by innovative ones that create conditions for student activity, putting him in a situation of free choice and decision making. The article focuses on the training portfolios technology application in the educ...

An actual problematic question in geography didactic, directly related to the quality and effectiveness of training, is that of the methodological principles. They are defined as the regulatory basic rules and criteria adopted in the practice, the compliance of which determines the optimal organization and effective implementation of the geography training process. The system of principles is open and dynamic. The principles themselves are not independent and isolated from one another, but interact. Principles are...

Today, the developing countries face a situation where there is an abundance of specialists with higher education, while the economy lacks qualified practice-oriented personnel. In general, there is a disproportion between the ever-increasing demand of specialists and supply on the labor market, and between the way of professional education and modern business. Society requires the commercialization of fundamental knowledge, the restructuring of the education system. Without losing its fundamental nature, educatio...

Large-scale changes can be observed in the Russian society in the XXI century. They laid the foundation to the Russian Federation integration into the global political, economic and cultural space, to the demarcation of a great number of borders as well as identified the indispensable necessity to uphold national interests of the state on a permanent basis. The processes of globalization, the development of international economic relations between the countries of the world community increased the need for competi...

The primary goal of the economic and innovative potential development lies in promoting cooperation between Russian universities along with academic organizations and manufacturing companies in order to expand knowledge-intensive production and fuel the supply of innovative products and services. Cooperation between universities and enterprises is organized around the joint development of sought-after technological solutions which are used as the basis for the creation of innovative products. By addressing applied...

Today, distance learning does not surprise anyone, most of the educational institutions of various levels abroad, to one degree or another, use distance technologies in the pedagogical process. Many students today consider this form of education as an alternative to the usual one, not only when receiving a second education, advanced training, but also choose this method for obtaining the first higher education. There is nowhere to go from current trends, and many universities understand this and are trying to deve...

The study of thinking, as well as any subject of psychological science, is determined by theoretical ideas about it, as well as various specific tasks. Currently, several theoretical approaches to the study of thinking are used. The system approach is based on the position that the specificity of a complex system object is not limited to the features of its constituent elements, but is primarily related to the nature of interactions between elements. In the process of system analysis, not only the causes of phenom...

The development of knowledge-based economy is based largely on the national innovative system. The effectiveness on innovative processes depends not only on the scientific, technical and production potential, but also on the relationship between science and production. Higher education institutions in post-industrial economies expand the list of functions they perform, as they are involved in the commercialization of scientific knowledge. Thereby, the article aims to investigate the forms and the level of particip...