The use of the scientific and cognitive potential of the museum of nature for forming inclusive culture in future teachers

¹ Belgorod State National Research University, Belgorod, Russia
² Astrakhan State University, Astrakhan, Russia

^* Corresponding author: grechitaeva@bsu.edu.ru

Abstract

The article analyses the innovative pedagogical technology of using the potential of natural science collections of nature museums, exposition and exhibition complexes, school mini-museums in new inclusion conditions for Russian education. The study is aimed at finding the most effective ways of forming an inclusive culture among future teachers included in exhibition activities on the basis of nature museums. Based on a synthesis of foreign and Russian experience in the formation of an inclusive culture among students, future teachers, a set of the most effective pedagogical tools, methods, techniques and forms of organization of the process under study has been determined. Specially developed diagnostic tools (criteria, indicators, levels, diagnostic methods) made it possible to analyse the experimental data obtained as a result of the application of empirical research methods: observation and interrogation. It was revealed that a common component of environmental culture, the formation of which is one of the most important areas of activity of nature museums, and inclusive culture is the formation of a valuable attitude to the diversity of the natural world and the human world. The huge educational potential of the natural science collections of nature museums, exposition and exhibition complexes, which allows students to increase their interest in studying nature, ecology, has been confirmed. The conditions of the exhibition and exhibition complexes make it possible to organize the work of groups of students, including students with disabilities, to study the objects of the world, as well as to teach excursions and quests for visitors with disabilities.