TOPONYMICS AS A SOURCE OF THE NATIVE COUNTRY GEOGRAPHY STUDY BY EDUCATORS

Abstract

The task of school local studies is to acquaint students from the southern and eastern regions of Ukraine with the spiritual, historical and cultural heritage of the Carpathian region, its geography, and nature. An important place in this process is occupied by toponymy i.e. a specific scientific discipline that has an interdisciplinary character, closely related to geography, history, linguistics, archeology, ethnology, ethnography, paleogeography, botany, zoology and other fields of knowledge, mastering the basics of which gives students another effective tool for getting to know your native land in particular and Ukraine in general. Under the conditions of the Russian-Ukrainian war, the process of de-russification of Ukrainian toponyms continues, the return of historical toponymy, Soviet toponyms, which are the symbols of the Russian Empire, are now disappearing, instead, Ukrainian names are being returned to them. These processes are very important for the formation of Ukrainian historical memory in students, their education as nationally conscious individuals.Toponymy as a branch of scientific knowledge has developed its own theory, the basis of which is a system of categories and concepts fixed in the term system, vocabulary characteristic of toponymy. Toponymy is closely related, first of all, to geography as a number of geographical disciplines The day of the restoration of Ukraine's independence (1991) opened new possibilities for the development of school local studies in general and the organization of toponymic research in particular. Іn the latest period of the development of Ukrainian education, the All-Ukrainian expedition "My Motherland – Ukraine" is of great importance for the popularization of school local history among students. The role of the Ivano-Frankivsk Regional State Center for Tourism and Local History among students in the development of the study of toponyms of the region is highlighted. The contrib ution of the scientist S. Babyshyn, the author of a number of publications on local history and toponymy, to the theory and practice of geographical education, local history, the preparation of teachers of Podillia and Prykarpattia to carry out local history activities at school, and the inclusion of students in research work is emphasized. The collection and study of geographical names is an urgent matter of Ukrainian science, in particular, pedagogical, as they are important monuments of nature and the material and spiritual culture of the people, valuable historical and geographical sources for the study of their region, an important factor in the national-patriotic education of children and youth, formation of historical memory in them. The subject of further scientific research will be the problem of studying toponyms in the process of studying the integrated course "I explore the world" at NUS.