The classical and pedagogical variants of the geographical university education that have fundamental differences on the applied orientation of graduate knowledge and the sphere of their further professional self-realization are considered in the article.
geographical education, pedagogical education, classical education, teacher of geography, selfidentification, geography methodology, geography theory
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