Keywords: methodology in teaching physics, training of educators, physics’ teachers
This paper presents the stages through wich physics’ teachers training has passed in the end of the ХIХth and the whole ХХth century in Bulgaria. It deals with the educational institutions for the future teachers of physics.
The first document dates from 31.V.1889. It’s an order of the Ministry of Education in Bulgaria which lays the foundations of the training of teachers of physics to get higher education. “The Physics and Mathematics Department” of the “Visshe uchilishte” (the future Sofia University) starts functioning from the beginning of the academic 1889/90 year. The second phase of the training of physics’ teachers with higher education starts in 1921, when the “Obrazcovata gimnaziya”(high school) in Sofia is opened. There the university students took their practice. In 1929 in Sofia the Institute for candidate - teachers is opened, where the future teachers, after completing Sofia State University, follow one academic year compulsory pedagogical and methodological training.
The first course for training teachers of physics and mathematics for lower-secondary schools starts during the academic 1909/10 year in Plovdiv, at “Majkata gimnaziya”(the male secondary school) and is called “extra pedagogical classes”. In 1921 these classes have been renamed Teachers’ Institutes.
Today teachers in physics are preparing in the Universities in Sofia, Plovdiv, Shumen, Blagoevgrad and Russe. The first Department of the Methodology in physics has been established in 1980 in Sofia University.
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Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
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Created: 15 September 2006
Updated: 1 October 2015
