Main University departments Faculty of Pedagogy and Psychology
FACULTY OF PEDAGOGY AND PSYCHOLOGY
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Dean
Zoya Nikolaevna Kozlova
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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:
- Department of Pedagogics
- Department of Psychology
- Department of Preschool Education
- Department of Technology and Visual Art
- Department of Music Education
- Department of Natural-Science Disciplines
- Department of Physical Culture and Healthy Lifestyle
- Department of Methodology and Theory of Physical Culture
- Department of Humanities and Social Sciences
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
- Home Economics and Visual Art teaching in comprehensive and special secondary schools of various types;
- Study group management in out-of-school educational institutions;
- Popular, decorative and applied arts teaching in cultural institutions of various types;
- Solution of social-pedagogical tasks in the field of forming the educational environment, rehabilitation, correction, help, support, protection, social control of children and young people;
- Methodical and inspection work in national education bodies;
- Research, scientific and pedagogical work in scientific institutions;
- Individual creative and business 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
- Home Economics and Entrepreneurship teaching in comprehensive and special secondary schools of various types;
- Study group management in out-of-school educational institutions;
- Popular, decorative and applied arts teaching in cultural institutions of various types;
- Solution of social-pedagogical tasks in the field of forming the educational environment, rehabilitation, correction, help, support, protection, social control of children and young people;
- Methodical and inspection work in national education bodies;
- Research, scientific and pedagogical work in scientific institutions;
- Individual creative and business 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:
- Teaching and educational;
- Educational -methodical;
- Research;
- Innovative;
- Organizational-administrative;
- Cultural-educational;
- Communicative.
Sphere of professional activity
- Psychological work in secondary and special educational institutions of various types;
- Methodical work in educational institutions and organizations;
- Management of study group work of pupils in out-of-school educational institutions;
- Methodical and inspection work in national education bodies;
- Research and scientific - pedagogical work in scientific institutions.
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:
- Design-production;
- Organizational-administrative;
- Expert-control;
- Research;
- Pedagogical.
Sphere of professional activity
- academic and branch scientific research institutes,
- design, prospecting and scientifically - production organizations,
- institutions, enterprises and consolidations, bureau, firms and other organizations of various types of ownership engaged in economic development and protection of natural resources, placing of production systems, management, designing and examination of economic activity;
- production, science and education management structures;
- broker, marketing and management firms;
- institutions of higher, secondary and special education systems of the Ministry of Education of Republic of Belarus and others Ministries and departments.
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:
- Teaching and educational;
- Educational-methodical;
- Research;
- Innovative;
- Information-educational;
- Management.
Sphere of professional activity
- Solution of social-pedagogical tasks in the field of forming the educational environment, rehabilitation, correction, help, support, protection, social control of children and young people;
- Coordination of social institutes' activity on optimizing processes of the personality and social environment interaction;
- Methodical and inspection work in national education bodies;
- Research, scientific and pedagogical work in scientific institutions.
Department – Department of Pedagogics
Form of education: full-time education |