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The Institute of Pre-school, Primary School Education and Special Pedagogy

In October 1979 a new faculty “Pedagogy and Methods of Primary Education” was opened on basis of Industrial Pedagogical School of Volgograd State Pedagogical Institute.

In December 1989, the democratic elections of Dean were held. Doctor of science, a professor of Pedagogy and Psychology of Primary Education department Yarikova Svetlana G. was elected as the dean. Several departments had been established: Pedagogy of Pre-school Education, Pedagogy of Primary Education, Natural Sciences and Mathematics, Russian Language and Methods of its Teaching at primary school.

In 1989 the faculty introduced some additional educational programs for Social Pedagogy, Psychology, Foreign Language, and Music Education. On basis of these additional specializations new specialties were opened – “Speech Therapy” and “Pedagogy and Psychology”.

Nowadays the faculty cooperates with several educational institutions of Volgograd and Volgograd Region, and several Russian and international universities.

By 2004, the faculty had already had two large branches: part-time (1200 students) and full-time (1050 students), 7 departments of training in eight specialties of full-time and nine specialties of part-time branches.

In September 2004 the Faculty of Pedagogy and Methods of Primary Education and Pre-school Education was transformed into the Institute of Pre-school, Primary and Special Pedagogy with two departments: the Faculty of Pre-school and Primary Education and the Faculty of Social and Correctional Pedagogy.

Now there are a lot of different programs of education at the Institute of Pre-school, Primary and Special Pedagogy:

• Pedagogy of Pre-school Education;

• Pedagogy and Psychology of Primary Education;

• Information Technology and Methods of Teaching Computer Science;

• Russian Language and Methods of Teaching it at Primary School;

• Natural Sciences and Mathematics;

• Speech Therapy;

• Oligophrenia Pedagogy;

• Pre-school Psychology;

• Pre-school Pedagogy and Psychology with the additional specialty;

• Social Pedagogy;

• Pedagogy and Methods of Primary Education with the additional specialty “Information Technology”;

• Pedagogy and Psychology;

• Primary Education;

• Social Pedagogy and Children's Practical Psychology;

• Psychological Support of Training for Children with Intellectual Problems;

• Training Technologies of Pre-school Education.

Vocabulary

on basis of – на базе;

elections – выборы;

dean – декан;

additional – дополнительный;

to cooperate – сотрудничать;

support – сопровождение, поддержка.

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Answer the questions to the text:

1. What is the name of the faculty you study at?

2. When was your faculty founded?

3. When were the elections of Dean held?

4. Who became the dean of the faculty?

5. What additional educational programs were introduced at the faculty in 1989?

6. What happened in September 2004?

7. What program of education do you study?