Main University departments Faculty of Pedagogy and Psychology

   FACULTY OF PEDAGOGY AND PSYCHOLOGY

Dean Zoya Nikolaevna Kozlova

Teacher in the 21st century is one of the key figures in managing the process of human development. In general teachers are the main keepers of the nation and humanity spiritual potential, they are professionals possessing an arsenal of modern educational technologies and bearers of the intellectual fund able to use it effectively in practice.

The Faculty of Pedagogics and Psychology counts about 725 full-time students in 33 groups. The Faculty trains 828 correspondence students in 33 groups.

The Faculty comprises the following departments:

135 full-time lecturers and 25 highly qualified specialists in teaching work at the Faculty departments. The academic staff comprises experienced lecturers with advanced degrees and titles, rich life and professional experience, and young lecturers – master and PhD students. The average age of Faculty of Pedagogics and Psychology lecturers – a bit over 40 years.

The teaching staff of the Faculty focuses its attention on three key work areas: academic, methodological and educational ones, and there are great achievements in all of them. The research results of associate professors Ryndevich S.K., Lukashenya Z.V., Tristen K.S. and others were presented many times at national and international scientific conferences and scientific forums. Scientific researches of the heads of departments Dubeshko N.G., Rudneva A.E. and the senior lecturers Zuev V.N., Selezneva A.A., Kozel V.I. are practice-oriented and bear a relation to the solution of important social problems. Research papers of Faculty students get annually I, II, III categories at national contests of student research works. Teaching and learning materials on Pedagogics of the associate professor Khitryuk V.V. were highly appreciated at the national level.

The Faculty sees its priority task in training of highly skilled specialists, forming of a spiritually rich personality. Maximum approach of the teaching and educational process to practical work favors the solution of this task. Different types of practical activities are included in the curricula of each specialty. The Department of Preschool Education and the Department of Pedagogics have opened their branches directly in such educational institutions as “The Day Nursery №57” and Comprehensive School №10 where an active research work takes place, new training and educational technologies are approved. The branch of the Department of Psychology functions fruitfully in the Baranovichi Medical Centre for children with psycho-neurological diseases.

4 specialized laboratories are involved in the educational process: the laboratory of technical means of training; the educational biological laboratory of the Department of Natural-Science Disciplines with a greenhouse and an aquarium; the laboratories of sewing and food production technology of the Department of Technology and Fine Arts.

Educational and ideological work at the Faculty is focused on the development of a personality with an active civic stand. The formed student self-government system, an active participation of students in the volunteering movement, university contests and festivals contribute to this goal. Charity actions became traditional at the faculty. HIV preventive actions as well as the reading competition devoted to V.Golubok and others activities took place last year at the faculty. The Faculty of Pedagogics and Psychology is in constant search for new forms of professional training.

Specialties of the Faculty of Pedagogics and Psychology

Specialty: 1-02 06 04 - Home Economics and Visual Arts

Professional qualification - Teacher

Objects of professional activity

Comprehensive schools, gymnasia, lyceums and also schools and classes with profound learning of popular, decorative and applied arts, out-of-school educational institutions (aesthetic centers, visual art schools, youth and schoolchildren's palaces), centers of social assistance, rehabilitation centers, departments of population social protection, bodies of social environment management, national education bodies.

Sphere of professional activity

Professional destination

Graduated specialists should be prepared for teaching, methodological, organizational, management, lecturing and educational work in the field of secondary education and culture, science and research.

Specialists are trained for home economics and visual art teaching in secondary schools of various types, planning the educational process, organizing classes, management of study group activity and schoolchildren's research work in out-of-school educational institutions ; in educational and research institutions, comprehensive schools, lyceums, colleges and also schools and classes with profound learning of disciplines, out-of-school educational institutions, educational and cultural bodies, pedagogical research institutions, higher education institutions.

Specialists are trained for social and educational activities in educational institutions of various types, in institutions of social and educational assistance.

Department : Department of Technology and Visual Art

Form of education: full-time education

Specialty: 1-02 06 02 - Home Economics and Entrepreneurship

Professional qualification - Teacher

Objects of professional activity

Comprehensive schools, gymnasia, lyceums and also schools and classes with profound learning of popular, decorative and applied arts, out-of-school educational institutions (aesthetic centers, visual art schools, youth and schoolchildren's palaces), centers of social assistance, rehabilitation centers, departments of population social protection, bodies of social environment management, national education bodies.

Sphere of professional activity

Professional destination

Graduated specialists should be prepared for teaching, methodological, organizational, management, lecturing and educational work in the field of secondary education and culture, science and research.

Specialists are trained for home economics and entrepreneurship teaching in secondary schools of various types, planning the educational process, organizing classes, management of study group activity and schoolchildren's research work in out-of-school educational institutions ; in educational and research institutions, comprehensive schools, lyceums, colleges and also schools and classes with profound learning of disciplines, out-of-school educational institutions, educational and cultural bodies, pedagogical research institutions, higher education institutions.

Specialists are trained for social and educational activities in educational institutions of various types, in institutions of social and educational assistance.

Department : Department of Technology and Visual Art

Form of education: full-time education

Specialty 1-03 04 04-02 Practical Psychology

Qualification - Teacher-psychologist

Objects of professional activity

Objects of professional activity are: psychological services of different levels, specialized centers with psychological services, secondary educational institutions, specialized educational institutions of the closed type, higher educational institutions, national education bodies, scientific institutions of the psychological profile, general educational institutions, including those of profound studying of home economics, scientific institutions of the psychological -pedagogical profile.

Kinds of professional activity

Graduates of the university should be competent in the following types of activity:

Sphere of professional activity

Department - Department of Psychology

Form of education: full-time and correspondence education.

Specialty 1-33 01 02 01 Geoecology. Wildlife management and rational use of natural resources

Qualification - Geographer-ecologist. Teacher of Geography and Ecology

Objects of professional activity

Objects of professional activity are: geographical environment both natural and natural-anthropogenic geosystems, development of principles and wildlife management specifications, solution of theoretical and applied tasks in the field of rational use of natural resources, wildlife protection, optimization of the human activity environment and the country sustainable development, teaching of geographical and ecological disciplines

Kinds of professional activity

Graduates of the university should be competent in the following types of activity:

Sphere of professional activity

Department - Department of Natural-Science Disciplines

Form of education: full-time and correspondence education.

Specialty 1 01 01 01 Preschool Education

Qualification - Teacher

The professional area is children education from birth up to school.

Sphere of activity : education and training of preschool children at preschool institutions; research, scientific and pedagogical work at scientific institutions.

Department – Department of Preschool Education

Form of education: full-time, correspondence and correspondence (on the basis of secondary specialized education) education.

Specialty 1 01 02 01 Elementary Education

Qualification - Teacher

Sphere of activity : teaching at elementary schools; methodical and inspection work at national education control bodies; research, scientific and pedagogical work at scientific institutions.

Department – Department of Pedagogics

Form of education: full-time, correspondence and correspondence (on the basis of secondary specialized education) education.

Specialty 1-03 04 01 Social Pedagogics

Qualification – Social Pedagogue

Objects of professional activity

Objects of professional activity are secondary comprehensive schools, gymnasiums, lyceums and also schools with profound learning of folk art; out-of-school educational institutions (aesthetic centers, art workshops, youth palaces), psychological and pedagogical institutions, social aid bodies, rehabilitation centers, offices of social welfare, bodies of social environment management, bodies of national education.

Kinds of professional activity

University graduates should be competent in the following kinds of activity:

Sphere of professional activity

Department – Department of Pedagogics

Form of education: full-time education