Providing conceptualization to the educational system of secondary school children (Case of Russia's Zabaykalsky Krai)

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to provide conceptualization to the educational system of interdisciplinary spatial representations of the local residence place of children in secondary general education schools in Russia's Zabaykalsky Krai. The main research method is conceptualization that implies the comprehension and generalization of the authors' many years of work with further presentation of the theoretical arrangement to the accumulated data array. The study may be considered a novel one since it combines different types of authors' activities (scientific, educational, popularizing) on a unified conceptual basis. Theoretical and informational platforms for the mentioned kind of education in Zabaykalsky Krai are the two projects supplemented by the quests system. The third project is aimed at popularizing the first two by organizing game quests among the children of the region. The local history quests of the project had a great impact on activating the cognitive interest of the students in local, interdisciplinary research.