KHACHATUR ABOVYAN ARMENIAN STATE PEDAGOGICAL UNIVERSITY

First-year students of the Faculty of Educational Psychology and Sociology specializing in Social Pedagogy today organized a quiz game within the framework of the subject Theoretical Pedagogy.

With the slogans “We can do everything together step by step,” “We are successors of Kh. Abovyan, let us be kind and clever,” the students divided into two teams – “Hayordiner” (Sons of Haya) and ‘Abovyanakanner” (Successors of Khachatur Abovyan). Then they asked each other questions concerning the contradictory opinions in the pedagogical literature, the role of a social pedagogue at school and in the family and the use of different methods while working with different age groups. 

The teams also cited pedagogy-related aphorisms and competed with each other in two phases  - “Situational Problems” and “Competition for Seniors.” They were asked how they would behave [as educators] in a variety of complicated situations. 

The answers were marked by a jury that was comprised of Aida Topuzyan, Head of the Department of Professional Education and Applied Pedagogy, Susanna Sisyan, Lusine Poghosyan and Arusyak Hovhannisyan, Associate Professors of the same Department, and Silva Asryan, the chief editor of Mankavarjakan Hamalsaran (Pedagogical University) newspaper.

“What you have learned today you will use throughout your life, even if you do not work by your profession.  Treat the profession you have chosen with warmth and a vibration coming from your hearts,” said Aida Topuzyan. 

She praised the initiative of lecturer Gayane Aghuzumtsyan to summarize the knowledge on the subject by a quiz game, at the same time sharing her observations on the process and content of the game.  

The quiz game ended in a draw, with both teams receiving equal points.