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Gradually, the idea of museum pedagogy as an integrative and qualitatively new sphere of
educational activity is being formed; it is beginning to be considered by modern researchers as an
innovative pedagogical technology. Museum pedagogy confidently occupies the place of one of the
directions of museum activity, as it is capable to unite in the educational process spiritual and moral,
civil and patriotic and historical features.
The museum has a great educational potential, has a number of advantages over other educational
institutions in the field of value formation.
1. Informality. The museum is able to create an atmosphere of trust much better than a teacher will
do during an instructor's class, the role of the museum artifact in this respect is beyond doubt. Trust
activates attention and enhances the perception of the material.
2. Democratisation. Museum education is devoid of rigid schemes and can be extended to different
groups in society regardless of age and degree of preparedness.
3. Visibility. A lesson in a museum can overcome alienation in the perception of social
abstractions, create a visible image of the Motherland, small and large, its history and culture.
4. Communicativeness. A lesson from a monologue turns into a dialogue, the exhibition material
in a museum can raise much more questions than what is shown in the audience.
5. Emotionality. Education and upbringing cannot be reduced to transmitting certain information
and stating a certain set of ideas. The supreme goal of education is not knowledge, but feeling.
Therefore, emotionality is a necessary component in the process of such education. The museum
cannot leave visitors indifferent; it evokes a lot of cognitive emotions and is able to form and
consolidate an ideology [1].
The mentioned advantages of museum pedagogy need further study and testing in an experimental
way. Museum pedagogy in practice means lessons in a museum, specialized excursions, organization
of university museums and museum rooms, project activities of pupils and teachers. All this work
requires professional training, enthusiasm, creativity and even some physical endurance.
Therefore, it is the students, future teachers, who can organically perceive museum pedagogy and
use it in their activities. At the same time, the care of the university is to create appropriate conditions
in which students constantly interact with museums, have the opportunity to conduct lessons there,
develop excursions, study the history of their region, conduct research work. This is the same practical
work, which requires consolidation of skills as engineers and technicians, but it is not the technology
but the moral guidelines of the future generation [2].
In the process of research work, new objects, exhibits and historical heritage may be attracted.
Each future teacher should be able to give an excursion in his or her own settlement, local history
museum, know the history of the streets, the circumstances of the city and its surroundings
monuments, biographies of local celebrities, achievements of the region in various fields, legends,
myths, even historical anecdotes. Not every village has a description of its history, perhaps the
information still needs to be collected and systematized, which can be more successfully implemented
through the joint efforts of the university and the museum institution.
So, museum pedagogy at the present stage of development of society can be considered as one of
the means of professional training of future teachers, one of the directions of museum activity, and
also as a qualitatively new sphere of educational activity. Museum pedagogy can raise the training of
students of humanitarian directions to a completely different level. To solve this problem, it is
necessary to transfer the relationship between the museum and the university to a stronger legal and
practical basis.
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