Context based learning in ecological education - the experience of A. Baitursynuly Kostanay regional university

Abstract

Context based learning serves the effective tool for developing ecological education at teacher trainees. The article is devoted to the process of introduction of context education (quasi-professional and pedagogical contexts) within the discipline “Community service”. 114 students of A. Baitursynov Kostanay regional university underwent the public defense of the interactive social projects with eco-aspect in Kostanay. The methods of active participation into the social life of Kostanay (patronage, team-teaching, self-assessment) resulted in the level of social responsibility of teacher trainees, forming positive intrinsic motivation to ecological aspect of teaching. The authors present the entry data on the levels of motivation to the use of ecological education in teacher trainees’ future pedagogical activity, the content plan of the modernised discipline “Community service”, final data on project assessment of teacher trainees at the end of their theoretical and practical study.The gained results demonstrated the improving the quality of the motivational sphere of teacher trainees (intrinsic positive) to implement the ecological aspect into their pedagogical activity based on context learning within the given course.