Kherson State University

Position:

Professor of the Chair of Physics and Methodics of its Education

Education:

• 1975 graduated from the Faculty of Physics of Kharkiv State University named after O.M. Gorky (now National and named after V.N. Karazin) in the specialty Astronomy.

• In 1986 he defended his PhD thesis at the State Astronomical Institute named after P.K. Sternberg at Moscow State University by M.V. Lomonosov

• 2013 defended his doctoral dissertation at the National Pedagogical University named after M.P. Drahomanov

Scientific degree, scientific title:

Doctor of Pedagogical Sciences, Candidate of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Professor

PhD Thesis:

"The use of speckle interferometry for measuring double stars and angular diameters of red giants."

Doctoral dissertation:

"Theoretical and methodological fo undations of fundamentalisation of the future astronomy teachers training"

Whiskers:

• 1975–1986 – junior researcher at the Astronomical Observatory of Kharkiv State University;

• 1986–1989 – Lecturer in the Department of Physics Teaching Methods of the Kherson State Pedagogical Institute;

1989–1994 – Senior Lecturer in the Department of Physics Teaching Methods of the Kherson State Pedagogical Institute;

• 1994–2008 – Deputy Dean for Educational Work of the Faculty of Physics and Mathematics, Associate Professor of the Chair of Physics and Methodics of its Education at the KSU;

• 2008–2011 –Doctoral student at KSU;

• 2011–2014 – Associate Professor of the Chair of Physics and Methodics of its Education at KSU;

• since 2014 – Professor of the Chair of Physics and Methodics of its Education at KSU 

in 2016 received the academic title of professor

Scientific interests:

• didactics of astronomy;

• fundamental constants of physics and mathematics;

• the anthropic principle;

• SETI problem.

Research activities:

actual problems of didactics of astronomy

Scientific and methodological activity:

author of the first Ukrainian collections of problems in astronomy and astrophysics "Solar System (K .: Higher School, 2007 – 167 p.) and "Stars"(K.: Education of Ukraine, 2010. – 206 p.), monograph "Training of the Modern Teacher Astronomy"(Kherson: KSU, 2011. – 332 p. co-author (together with S.M. Andrievsky, V.A. Zahozhai, I.A. Klimyshyn)) textbook "General Astronomy"(Kharkiv: PromArt., 2019. – 524 p.)

Delight:

• creativity of the Strugatsky brothers and Boris Akunin (Chhartishvili)

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