The article deals with the ways of increasing motivation towards the academic discipline ‘Latin and the Fundamentals of Medical Terminology’ at the medical university and proves their usefulness. Specifically, the author’s attention is focused on such methodical aspects as: ‒ the greeting and farewell in Latin. The author believes that it is important for the first-year students as a form of respect to language and to a lecturer; ‒ the usage of the Latin proverbs and sayings. Firstly, by using the given educational material the lecturer may achieve an educational (moralizing) goal in the classroom. Secondly, a proverb is one of important tools in the phonetic warming up that helps students to prepare their organs of speech for different activities in class. Thirdly, through proverbs and sayings students learn many words and master grammar rules; ‒ self-study of the Latin proverbs and sayings during the school year. Students are proposed to learn by heart a certain number (about 50) of eloquent expressions during the school year. They choose interesting proverbs by themselves; ‒ encyclopedic minutes. This is a short presentation of some informative facts (myths, legends) that related to the peculiarities of the Latin language; ‒ different projects. Students can be involved as listeners or speakers into studentsʼ research societies (circles) organized by the Department of Foreign Languages; in the studentsʼ scientific conferences at all levels; in cultural events related to foreign languages, including Latin. The following methods are used in the article: analysis, synthesis, generalization, classification, interpretation of pedagogical sources with the purpose to determine the conceptual and terminological apparatus; observation ‒ with the purpose to identify the ways of increasing motivation towards the academic discipline ‘Latin and the Fundamentals of Medical Terminology’. The prospect of further research is the analysis of the student’s interest while studying the discipline Latin and the Fundamentals of Medical Terminology (foreign languages) at the medical university.
The article deals with the peculiarities of the American pedagogical ideas at the end of the ХІХth – the beginning of the ХХth centuries, considering ideas of pragmatic pedagogy by such representatives as W. James, F. Parker, E. Thorndike, F. McMurry, P. Monroe. There are the following theoretical methods that are used in the article: analysis, synthesis, generalization, classification, interpretation of historical and pedagogical sources with the purpose to decide the status of the problem and its correlation with important scientific researches of our time. The author points out that the end of the XIXth century in the US has marked a turning point for the pragmatic pedagogy, which principles differ from the traditional educational paradigm. Besides, the article proposes the number of the brightest pragmatic pedagogy representatives. Among them there are W. James (the main aims of the new pedagogy are: to provoke interest – to foresee – to prepare – to impart knowledge – to fix a result – to promote further development; the best method of teaching is a comprehensive information review with the help of multiple repetition that, as a result, turns into a habit; the interest is a continuation of unconditioned instincts); E. Thorndike (education is an organization of stimulus and response; three laws of learning: the law of readiness, the law of exercise and the law of effect); F. McMurry (the factors that influence the educational process: achievement of certain goals, extrapolation of ideas, formulation and usage of ideas, evaluation of the statement correctness and importance, memorizing, providing with a positive attitude to knowledge, stimulation of personality development); P. Monroe (modification of the school curriculum according to the social development needs) and others. As for the prospects for further research, they are connected with the comparison of the American pragmatic pedagogy and Ukrainian pedagogy at the end of the ХІХth – the beginning of the ХХth centuries. We could distinguish similarities and differences, trace the implementation of the American educational ideas into the educational process of the Ukrainian schools during the named period.
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.
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