NORMATIVE FRAMEWORK (PRECONDITIONS) IN THE TRAINING OF GEOGRAPHY AND ECONOMICS IN 9-TH GRADE – LOGIC AND CHALLENGES

Abstract

Since the school year of 2016 new educational realities have been introduced in the Republic of Bulgaria. The education reform was initiated with the introduction of the new Preschool and school education Act and its regulations that define the school frame of geographical education. The education is a national priority with a new conceptual frame representing a process of education, upbringing and socialization valid as well as in the training of geography and economics. This article presents of the training on „Geography and economics” in the new curriculum – IX –th grade, compulsory preparation. A conceptual and content-analysis were made of the place, structure and content, new concepts, areas of competence, competencies as expected results, inter-subject and interdisciplinary-subject relations, activities for acquiring key competences, atc. In new educational realities the training on „Geography and economics” has a new model for the Bulgarian secondary school.