Cultural and educational activities of the Children's Museum Center of the Omsk State Historical and Local Lore Museum as a structural element in the formation of personal competencies of students

An important condition for improving the quality of education today is the introduction of a competence approach. Acquisition of vital competences forms the ability of the individual to respond quickly to the needs of the time. The museum along with the school is the socio-cultural institution and educational resource, which directly contributes to the achievement of these competences. The main tool of modern museums in this direction is cultural and educational activity, the theoretical basis of which is the principles of museum pedagogy. In the development of museum business in recent years, there has been a trend to introduce new domestic models of museum structures - the Children's Museum Centers, which have the goal of ensuring the interaction of the education and cultural sectors. The history of the existence of the Children's Museum Center at the Omsk State Museum of History and Ethnography began in November 2001. The main goal of the implemented project was a pedagogical experiment to develop the motivation of the individual to engage in creativity, deepen the spiritual, patriotic sphere of the child through the varied forms of teaching, research, and local lore. The article reveals the forms of cultural and educational activities of the Children's Museum Center that emerged and existed throughout the whole period of its activity from the point of view of their consideration as an interconnected system that comprehensively influences the formation of the students' personal competencies. The article highlights the stages of the development of the center on the basis of the criterion “structural changes and expansion of the content of activities”. The author comes to the conclusion that the Children's Museum Center of the OGIK of the museum has built its work with students on the basis of the system-activity approach, offering a variety of mutually complementary forms of cultural and educational activity. Such forms of work aimed at the integration of education and culture, as well as the maximum use of the cultural environment of the museum for educational and educational purposes, undoubtedly proved their worth. They have a great pedagogical potential: the ability to effectively influence the formation of patriotism, morality, multicultural consciousness, the education of a person capable of self-education and self-development, respectful attitude to the historical, cultural and natural heritage. In practice, the center became an institution for additional development of extracurricular education, which gave the right of free choice of the students the types and content of activities. The Center conducted fruitful co-operation with various educational institutions of the city, which contributed to the mutual enrichment and the emergence of new museum and educational programs. To date, the Children's Museum Center is a visiting card of the OGIK museum, implementing its numerous programs and occupying a special position in its structure.

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