Teaching students economic education

Associate professor Kassymova R.S., master’s student Nemysheva G.S

Kazakhstan, Almaty

The present and future of our country in the hands of the rising generation. And the only way to make this generation all-round, knowledgeable, economically literate, intellectual and striving for self-knowledge is through educating youth creativity and leading them to success. For the reason that only creative teacher can form a creative person it requires a deep knowledge and ability of a teacher.

Today we need the professionals that can keep pace with the rapid development of society: competitive, enthusiastic, relevant-thinking persons, who are able to raise the economy with enough methodological and scientific knowledge and skills, who have mastered pedagogical and psychological sciences. Because, educational process requires a good training in the term of preparation and quality of teaching. It gives a teacher self-development, self-education, and self creativity at his or her position. Teacher is the person who train, educate, bring up today’s student, tomorrow’s society’s and state’s partial.

The fundamental of economic education lies in labor education. To develop a student’s need for labor making, diligence, activity in social labor, conscious labor discipline and other ethical qualities are the fundamentals of economic education. By giving economic education we will empower students with economic knowledge, explain the society’s economic policy, basic economical relations in practice as well as economic industry, exchange, division and consumption. According to foreign scientists economical education should consider the gender, age and ethnical and cultural diversity and should start from the first year of a school and continue until the graduation.

In Hungary, Czech Republic, Bulgaria and Germany children begin working from early ages. They work on private farms which are the loans of the state. These farms are rich, but lack of labor force. By working on these kinds of farms students get accustomed to work from early ages, they are aware of economics of work, they learn to organize work so that it would profit and would not bring expenses. If the students work in another place than private farms they earn salary. By allocating the salary themselves, they learn to plan incomes and expenses as well as reconcile the needs with possibilities. Moreover, teaching students to work from early ages affects rightly to develop in learners skills that defines them as individuals who profit family’s and state’s economy. In many states’ socio-economic politics everyone pays a lot of interest in the final result of their work. The main thing here is to combine the interests of the society with the interests of people, and not putting them against each other. It is believed that if each citizen becomes wealthy the national economy also grows rich.

Economic education is intended to teach students need for the labor, hard-working attitude, public labor activity in order to establish a reasonable work schedule and other moral qualities in students. The ultimate goal of economic education for students is awareness of the economic policy of the society, to experience basic notions as production, exchange, distribution and consumption within the framework of economic relations.

Since the development of the economy and culture closely related to the well-being of the population we need to create a new step forward in economic education for young generation. However, economic education cannot form the people’s accuracy, efficiency, and stability to social wealth by itself. Such qualities can sometimes seem selfish and consumer nature. Until now we have been teaching students to be not a producer of material wealth, but only to be a user. As a result, they have accumulated a lot of time and expenses and have just been learning for material cutting, drilling and repair. For instance, students decided to create a box. They have no idea how much loss and profit cause to create a material, they do not calculate how much strength, electricity, labor and equipment was used to make it. Economic education of the child in the family, including school, will teach student’s to determine the income and profit, to organize labor effectively, to regulate quality outlook, to shape the correct understanding of labor and employment. It’s significant that adults explain to young generation to consume earnings correctly, to teach exchange, production, sale, distribution and the successful utilization of public consumption to the benefit of the members of the family, to explain the students how the income is earned and spent to the survival of the family.

Students should be aware of the following concepts at studying economic education: national income, finance, salary, labor, profit, cost-effectiveness, cost, shares, business, market, etc.

One of the main issues in economic education is money. This issue is resolved in the family, the school has only indirect access to it. A.S. Makarenko says: "The person who stepped into the adult life should have an own experience in financial resources and should know how to spend the money ".

At this time in the conditions of new socio-economic, socio-political changes every citizen of the country, especially the youth, should not lag behind the life development and must always remember its domestic debt.

Of course, this is a very responsible job. Therefore, to search for ways to improve the management and rational use of the market economy, giving education and training students are one of the most pressing issues of the teaching staff of the school

Economic education and education requirements in schools are the followings:

- to introduce students the economic laws of the society;

- to explain concepts “market”, “private enterprise”, “money”, etc.;

- to develop in students good business qualities;

- to improve the workability as much as possible;

-to teach students calculating and selection;

-to train them to the basis of economic education.

The theory of economic knowledge explains the material basis of society. It allows being familiar with the secrets of human society, to understand the objective basics of recreating society. The main objective of the economic education is to shape a right understanding of society’s economic culture and thinking in accordance with the current stage and to raise such qualities as responsibility, punctuality, organizational and business skills, discipline and austerity.

Conclusion

   The changes that are taking place in our country's socio-political and economic reforms demand changes in the education methods and system. Education should consider each person’s understanding of the new market relations, life and must act in accordance with the changes and conditions of modern life.

The growth of market relations should increase in the level of economic literacy in all spheres of life.

Economic education is the complex phenomenon which covers all sectors of social production. With the scientific and technical progress grows a challenge between all sectors of industry and public relations. According to the Constitution of Kazakhstan Republic we are creating a social market economy on the basis of this challenge. This is, first of all, is intended to routing issues of country's political and social interests of the people such as sovereignty, property, ownership of resources and production sectors of the national wealth of the country.