FEATURES OF THE ELECTIVE COURSE “FOUNDATIONS OF INFORMATION CULTURE” IN BACHELORS’ EDUCATIONAL AND PROFESSIONAL TRAINING PROGRAM “SECONDARY EDUCATION (THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE)”
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.25128/2415-3605.21.1.25Keywords:
information culture, an elective course, professional training of would-be foreign languages teachersAbstract
In the context of integration of the Ukrainian education into the European educational space future teachers’ information culture as a phenomenon, as well as the search and testing of the effective ways of its formation, remain to be topical issues for pedagogical theory and practice. The content, forms and methods of realization of the author’s technology of information culture formation are reflected in the course “Foundations of information culture”. The elective is a component of bachelors’ educational and professional training program “Secondary Education (The English Language and Literature)” at TNPU. Along with other components, the course promotes the formation of integral competency, a number of general and professional competencies, and also reaching certain program learning outcomes of professional training. The purpose of the article is to analyze and disseminate the experience of teaching an elective course, which aims to form the basis of information culture of future teachers of foreign languages, and outline the prospects for its use in corresponding future educational and professional training programs. The article discusses “the past” of the course, analyzes the first curriculum, thematic content, changes in study programs which have been made up to present. The paper also discusses “the present” of the elective, and outlines prospects as for teaching it in the future.
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