Samolyuk A. A. Acceleration of the Creativity of Secondary School Students by means of Tourism and Regional Studies

Samolyuk А. А., Postgraduate Student, Pereyaslav-Khmelnytsky Hryhoriy Skovoroda State Pedagogical University.

Abstract
The article identifies and characterizes the major psychological and pedagogical mechanisms and theoretical approaches to the acceleration of creativity in secondary school students by means of tourism and regional studies. The author defines the content of pedagogical supervision of children’s leisure activities that are incorporated into the secondary school educational process.
On the basis of the theoretical analysis of numerous research in this area, as well as own findings, the author identifies the essence of the prerequisites for the effective formation of creativity among secondary school students utilizing the capacity of tourism and regional studies, as well as characterizes a number of main features of this process. The description of the pedagogical conditions for the effective realization of this process is centered around lower-level preconditions, factors, and regularities, which are interrelated and, acting together, ensure educational effectiveness.
The major principles of the acceleration of the creativity of secondary school students are also characterized in the article. The author argues that the shaping of the holistic picture of the world, values, ideas, and beliefs regarding the environment, both social and natural, acquisition by the students of the knowledge in this area, development of environmental study and protection skills, as well as their application are the ultimate goal of the acceleration of creativity of students in the course of tourism and regional studies at educational institutions.

Key words: personality, regional studies, theoretical approaches, principles, creativity, secondary school students, comprehensive educational institution.

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