FORMATION OF CONCEPTS AND FIGURATIVE REPRESENTATIONS IN TEACHING GEOGRAPHY

Abstract

The article reveals the pedagogical conditions, content, forms and methods of consistent formation of geographical ideas and concepts that make it possible to optimally activate the consciousness and thinking of students, as well as their cognitive interest in geography lessons. The formation of ideas in geography lessons is the formation of a visual image of a previously perceived object or phenomenon (memory representation, recollection), as well as an image created by the imagination. In the process of educational activity, two types of representations are formed: the representation of memory and the representation of imagination