KHACHATUR ABOVYAN ARMENIAN STATE PEDAGOGICAL UNIVERSITY

The Armenian State Pedagogical University (ASPU) has been recommended to conduct a training course for pedagogical workers of preschool education institutions for the first time ever.

The 110-hour training course, which will be held from November 6 to December 1, will gather 60 participants from the capital and the country’s provinces.

On the first day of the training course, ASPU Rector Srbuhi Gevorgyan expressed greetings to the participants and considered binding the fact that preference has been given to the Armenian State Pedagogical University.

The University’s Rector fully hopes the courses will help fill the lack of necessary knowledge by shaping a world view, meeting today’s professional and pedagogical demands and the demands for upbringing and education, as well as fill the lack of knowledge of information technologies.

Professor Gevoryan admits that this is a meeting that is close to her heart since she is an alumnus of the Faculty of PreSchool Pedagogy and Psychology, and today, as a social psychologist, she believes it is important to know the social issues and psychological mechanisms in the pedagogical activities at preschools. She added that effectiveness of work in this sector is often conditioned by those social issues and psychological mechanisms.

How well do we know the children of today, the social domain of which has recently been ousted from the scope of responsibility of adults? Who is the subject of childhood today? What kinds of development programs should be proposed for the literate process of socialization of a growing child, as a result of which we will have the best generation for the future? During the meeting with the trainees, Rector Gevorgyan talked about the key issues of childhood, the role, formation and development of the subject of childhood and the changes in the methods for upbringing and education in the context of the modern challenges, noting that it is necessary to structure or restructure new methodical knowledge on the basis of all that.

“The instrumentation, methodological knowledge and skills that have existed until now are no longer satisfactory,” the Rector says and voices hope that raising complex questions with skillful specialists will help establish professional-social manuscriptology, and the gaps will be filled through additional consulting of the knowledgeable and literate specialists of the Chair of Preschool Pedagogy and Methodology, methodical literature and necessary mutual assistance and support.

ASPU Vice-Rector for Education Mariam Ispiryan says training courses serve as a major strategic direction for the Armenian State Pedagogical University (the process was launched at the ASPU in 2012 in different directions).

Vice-Rector Ispiryan wished the participants success and assured them that they will have the opportunity to improve their professional skills and capabilities (the teachers will be the leading sector-specific specialists, who are also the best at a scale of the republic).

Ispiryan voiced hope that the pedagogues of preschool education institutions will apply the new knowledge in their daily activities.

Acting Head of the Chair of Preschool Pedagogy and Methodology Armenuhi Manukyan is also very hopeful that the cooperation will be effective and that the participants will leave fully satisfied with the knowledge received and capabilities shaped.

Manukyan considers the process binding also for those who are responsible for the upbringing and education of the new generation, as well as for the formation of the new generation’s value system and world views. “The training course will be conducted through mostly innovative approaches, with emphasis on the changes being made in the preschool education sector and with interactive methods. This will provide the opportunity to enrich methodical, technological and theoretical knowledge,” Armenuhi Manukyan stated and recalled that the pedagogue is the one from whom people want to learn, not the one who teaches.

The first lesson of the training course kicked off with a course devoted to educational documents. During the lesson, Professor Alla Dallakyan urged the sector-specific representatives to speak out about problems and work together, with the conviction that they will be able to assume the strictly responsible task of educating the generation with new, enriched knowledge and emphases.