ВИКОРИСТАННЯ ПЕДАГОГІЧНИХ ІДЕЙ В. Г. КІЛПАТРИКА ПІД ЧАС ВИКЛАДАННЯ ІНОЗЕМНИХ МОВ У МЕДИЧНОМУ УНІВЕРСИТЕТІ

• Authors: Алла Куліченко

Title variants

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The use of W. H. Kilpatrick’s pedagogical ideas in teaching foreign languages at the medical university.

• Languages of publication: UK

Abstracts

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Today the key task is to educate and form an independent creative character ‒ a new generation person who is able to link theory with practice in a proper way and to achieve different goals with the help of acquired knowledge. Thus, W. H. Kilpatrick’s pedagogical ideas are these that will help a teacher to encourage a studentto follow his/her subject. Besides, it should be noted that the American educator’s pedagogical heritage has a great value for medical education ‒ in teaching both professional and non-professional disciplines. It is of particular importance for foreign languagesat the medical university. The paper aims to reveal W. H. Kilpatrick’s pedagogical ideas and their use during foreign languages lessons at the medical university.In this research, the author deals with the system-structural analysis and synthesis of W. H. Kilpatrick’s pedagogical ideas ‒ to form a holistic view of their content and functional relationships, and observation method ‒ to present the approbation data of W. H. Kilpatrick’s views during foreign languages classes at the medical university.The article focuses onthree W. H. Kilpatrick’s fundamental works ‒ “The Project Method. The Use of the Purposeful Act in the Educative Process”(1918),“Foundations of Method. Informal Talks on Teaching”(1925) and“Education for a Changing Civilization”(1926). Having analyzed American scholar’s pedagogical works, the author outlines the following important postulates that recommends taking into account and using: education philosophy; teaching method, its peculiarities; formula “Stimulus – Reaction” and its connection with training; purposeful act and interest; сlassification of learning; learning components; types of initial goals; the project method; classification of the project method; advantages and disadvantages of the project method. Moreover, the article provides information about approbation of the above-noted pedagogical ideas in teaching foreign languages at the medical university. As for the future research, it will be the study of the practical use of W. H. Kilpatrick’s pedagogical ideas in the system of higher medical education – in the process of students’ professional training. All in all, W. H. Kilpatrick was a talented educator who made a significant contribution to world pedagogy, and the project method became one of the main means in education at different levels.

Keywords

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pedagogical ideas; W. H. Kilpatrick; project method; project classification; teaching; foreign languages; recommendations; medical university

• Publisher: Sumy State Pedagogical University named after A.S. Makarenko
• Journal: Педагогічні науки: теорія, історія, інноваційні технології
• Year: 2017
• Issue: 7(71)
• Pages: 192-203

Dates

published

2017-10-23

Contributors

author

Алла Куліченко

Identifiers

DOI

10.24139/2312-5993/2017.07/189-200