DIDACTIC TOOLS AND GEOGRAPHY TRAINING

Geography and geography education play the major role when we explore and present the interaction between nature and human society in space and in the different parts of the world. Consequently it assumes that we are handling with a great variety of information sources in the real training process. These sources are didactic tools which together with educational curriculum and methods are the main attribute and essence of geography teaching and learning. As didactic tools we define all objects which present the educational curriculum in verbal and/or visual way, and also in direct or indirect form. The different devices for reproduction of existing knowledge and those used for organization, control and management of training and educational process are considered also as tools used for didactic goals. Didactic tools are important instrument helpful both for the teacher and the pupils. The didactic tools fulfill many didactic functions and definitely influence the quality and effectiveness of training process. These are our arguments why we have to pay attention to the topic in current research and demonstrate the immense importance of didactic tools in geography training. The main aim of the paper is to examine the right place of didactic tools in geography training and to present up-to-date didactic and methodical characteristic of them.