Oleg M. Topuzov

Vice-President of the National Academy of Educational Sciences of Ukraine

Corresponding Member of the National Academy of Educational Sciences of Ukraine (elected on 21.10.2016), Vice-President of the National Academy of Educational Sciences of Ukraine, Doctor of Science in Education, Professor, Honored Worker of Science and Technology of Ukraine.

Born in Tysmenytsya, Ivano-Frankivsk region. Citizen of Ukraine.

Graduated from the Kyiv State Pedagogical Institute after  O. M. Gorky, teacher of geography and biology (1987). Ph.D. thesis "Corrective  Facultative Course in Elementary School" (1994). Doctoral dissertation "Methodological Bases of Problematic Geography Training in General Educational Institutions" (2008).

Specialist in geography teaching techniques. He developed  principles of implementation of problem and activity approaches in teaching geography, which was implemented in curricula created with his participation and leadership;  a series of textbooks on geography for secondary school;  a textbook on methodology of teaching geography for higher education institutions. Organizer of scientific research at the Institute of Pedagogy, author of a number of initiatives aimed at increasing their effectiveness.

He has published more than 180 scientific works, including 3 monographs , 7 textbooks, 17 training and teaching aids, 2 electronic resources.

Prepared 3 doctors and 22 candidates of sciences.

Head of the specialized scientific council for the defense of Ph.D. thesis on the methodology of teaching (geography, chemistry) at the Institute of Pedagogy of the National Academy of Educational Sciences of Ukraine. Editor-in-chief of scientific journals in the field of pedagogy "Problems of the modern textbook" and "Ukrainian Pedagogical Journal", member of the editorial boards of a number of leading pedagogical editions of Ukraine.

Awarded: Honorary Diploma of the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine (2002), Honorary Diploma of the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine on occasion of the 75th anniversary of the Institute of Pedagogy (2007); Thanks of the Kiev mayor for his significant contribution to the development of science (2002); Honorary Diploma of the Kyiv mayor (2004); Sign of the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine "Excellent Educationalist of Ukraine" (2004); Diploma of the 3rd degree of the Academy of Educational Sciences of Ukraine for the best scientific work (2006); Sign "For Scientific Achievements" (2011); Medal "Hrigoryi Skovoroda" of the National Academy of Educational Sciences of Ukraine (2016); Medal "M.I.  Pirogov - Trustee of the Kiev Educational District" (2016).

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