CONTROVERSIAL DISCUSSION FOR IMPROVEMENT GEOGRAPHY TEACHING

Abstract

Beside earning factually and logical knowledge, insight into casual-ensuing relations between objects and phenomenons, it is necessary that pupils develop some skills during pedagogical-educational process. Children’s cooperation in dealing with group tasks is very important from school aspects. Educational aspect means that they are taught by their coevals at the same time as they transfer knowledge to them, which is required for achieving goals. On the other hand, pedagogical part consists of earning motivation, sense of belonging to a group, sense of own significance and contribution to group success, but it also includes obstacles which pupils must manage. All that have been mentioned belongs to special concept in schooling, named controversial discussion. The name itself indicates the basic characteristics of concept – analysis certain controversial topic (actual and traditional) on classes, defense and criticism of standpoint. The best results using this kind of work are achieved by rotation of roles, more precisely in the end of first debate pupils that defended one standpoint, the second part of debate start to support standpoint they criticized before. Debate must be based on scientific arguments and acquired experiences, without one-sided expression.