CONCEPTS AND TERMS AS TRADITIONAL AND INNOVATIVE ASPECTS OF SOCIAL GEOGRAPHY

Abstract

In the context of the development of social geography and active learning methods, traditional (district and region) and innovative (hoku-mesodistrict and hoku-region) elements of the conceptual and terminological apparatus are considered. As an example of their application in the educational process of active learning methods, most essential fragments of answers to original test tasks are given. It is emphasized that the application of the principle of “hoku” acts as a kind of trigger that activates the cognitive potential of the student audience, that prompt them to instantly turn to their mental and emotional experience, the source of which is book-camera and/or expeditionary and field information. The procedure for creating and introducing into the theory and practice of social geography such miniature constructs as hoku-mesodistricts and hoku-regions highlights the range of application of active learning methods and the idea of the uniqueness and specificity of the elements of tourist and recreational division into districts as well as elements of administrative-territorial elements of country’s division into districts. In the aspect of deepening the theory of social geography, the corresponding tabular (variability of interpretation of the categories “district” and “region”) as well as structural-logical (1 – fundamental components of the subject- object essence of tourism geography and recreational geography, 2 – hierarchy of terms and concepts of recreational geography and tourism geography) constructs are proposed. The first one (as well as the references database) fragmentarily systematizes both the main conceptual and terminological works and the positions of leading domestic and foreign scientists regarding the interpretation of stable socio-geographical concepts. The other two constructs are visual and imaginative models that demonstrate the position and structure of the conceptual and terminological array as a permanent component of social geography as well as a block of recreational and geographical disciplines.