Volgograd State Social Pedagogical University

Our university is one of the leading pedagogical institutions of higher learning in the Russian Federation. It was founded in 1931 as Stalingrad Industrial Pedagogical Institute. Then it was renamed as Stalingrad State Pedagogical Institute. Later it was named Volgograd State Pedagogical Institute.

After the Great Patriotic War the institute was situated in the building of Akademicheskaya Street (now it is Building No. 2). The Main Building was constructed in 1959. Building No. 1 was built next to it in 1998.

The institute was named after the famous writer Alexander Serafimovitch.

In 1992 the institute got the status of the university and the name of Volgograd State Pedagogical University.

Since 2011 our university has the name of Volgograd State Social Pedagogical University.

The university is an educational complex. It has its branch in Mikhailovka, three pedagogical colleges, the gymnasium, the boys’ pedagogical lyceum, schools and kindergartens.

Teaching and research are carried out by highly qualified staff: Candidates of Science, Doctors of Science and Academicians.

The university offers courses leading to higher degrees such as Bachelor, Master, Candidate of Science, and Doctor of Science.

Since the time VSSPU was founded it has prepared thousands of teachers and has become one of the greatest scientific centers in our country. Volgograd State Social Pedagogical University is well-known not only in Russia. Many students from different countries study here.

 

THE FACULTY I STUDY AT

I. the FACULTY of Pre-school and Primary Education

Find out the information of the Faculty.

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 Svetlana Yarikova was elected as the first dean. Several departments had been established: Pedagogy of Pre-school Education, Pedagogy of Primary Education, Natural Sciences and Mathematics, the Russian Language and Methods of its Teaching at Primary School.

By 2004, the faculty had already had two large branches: part-time (1.200 students) and full-time (1.050 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 Education and Special Pedagogy with two departments: the Faculty of Pre-school and Primary Education and the Faculty of Social and Correctional Pedagogy.

Now these faculties are separated. The Faculty of Social and Correctional Pedagogy is huge and has a qualified teaching staff, lots of students at full-time and part-time departments.

The faculty co-operates with several educational institutions of Volgograd and Volgograd Region, and several Russian and international universities.

Now there are a lot of different programs of education at the Faculty:

· Pedagogy of Pre-school Education;

· Pedagogy and Psychology of Primary Education;

· Information Technology and Methods of Teaching Computing Science;

· The Russian Language and Methods of Teaching it at Primary School;

· Natural Sciences and Mathematics;

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

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

· Primary Education.

Vocabulary

on basis of на базе

elections выборы

dean декан

to co-operate сотрудничать

additional дополнительный

 

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3. Answer the questions to the text:

1. What is the name of the faculty?

2. When was the faculty “Pedagogy and Methods of Primary Education” founded?

3. When were the elections of Dean held?

4. Who became the first 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?