Geography

Learning outcomes and competencies

• To collect and interpret information for the formation of knowledge, taking into account social, ethical and scientific considerations, critically evaluate their values, attitudes, ethical principles and teaching methods, and set new goals for their own pedagogical development;
• To generalize and analyze the cause-and-effect relationships between phenomena and processes occurring in order to interpret the idea of the unity and integrity of nature, the organic unity of man with nature.;
• Apply IT to expand the geographical worldview of modern society and develop demonstration experiments and practical work, use CLIL technologies for subject-language teaching of natural subjects, expanding students' intercultural knowledge to develop tasks for the development of analytical and critical thinking.;
• To recognize and understand fundamental scientific concepts of fundamental methodological and theoretical importance for understanding and mastering geographical sciences, to argue for their own position of applying and integrating knowledge from other fields of sciences to solve global and local environmental problems.;
• Critically select theoretical knowledge based on concepts in the field of geography using various information and communication technologies and use the knowledge to improve geography education and their own professional growth;
• Understand the features and properties of geographical maps and distinguish cartographic image methods and apply various spatial data in practice using geoinformation methods and technologies to understand the spatial and temporal model of natural objects.;
• Use physico-geographical and economic-geographical methods to conduct research in the educational process and apply field, geoinformation, statistical methods to solve practical problems.;
• Possess intercultural and communicative competence, apply skills for independent continuation of further education and build professional relationships in teaching and social activities; purposefully use means and methods to ensure the preservation and strengthening of health in professional activities;
• Understand the psychological and pedagogical problems of teaching and educating students with disabilities in inclusive education, take into account the diverse abilities of students in the learning process, ethically support their psychological well-being in a life and educational context;
• To systematize and generalize the acquired knowledge of geography in order to predict the dynamics of the consequences of geographical, ecological processes and phenomena, to model various geographical processes for conducting research, experiments and forecasting geographical objects, processes and phenomena.
• To cover holistically and objectively the main stages of the history, evolution of the forms of statehood and civilization of the Kazakh people, to know the methods of scientific research and academic writing, to understand the importance of principles and culture of academic honesty;
• To apply theoretical and practical knowledge to solve educational, practical and professional tasks in the field of geographical education, to design the conditions of educational activity in accordance with the set learning objectives, using modern pedagogical technologies.;