A round table on scientific schools of psychology was held
KazNU hosted an international round table ‘Scientific schools of psychology and pedagogy: dialogue and continuity of generations’, dedicated to the 90th anniversary of the founding of the university and the anniversary of Academician Zholmukhan Turkpenuly.
The mixed format event was attended by scientists from universities of Kazakhstan, Russia, Finland, South Korea, Poland, the Republic of Uzbekistan, public figures of the Republic of Kazakhstan, professors, teachers and students of Al-Farabi KazNU. An exhibition of books and works of Academician Zholmukhan Turpenuly was presented to the participants of the round table and a video about his life and work was shown.
Speaking at the roundtable meeting, Vice-Rector for Scientific and Innovative Activities of KazNU Zhamila Aitzhanova congratulated the jubilee and noted the achievements and great contribution to the development of education and science of Zholmukhan Turkpenuly - a contemporary of Al-Farabi KazNU, a graduate of S.M.Kirov Kazakh State University.
‘The academician worked for many years in the system of educational organisations. He made immeasurable contribution to the development of national psychology. A scientist with an active personal position and an educational psychologist. He is a representative of the scientific school of KazNU and the school of Academician Tolegen Tazhibaev. Zholmukhan Turkpenuly studied the works and heritage of the first Kazakh scientist-psychologist Tolegen Tazhibayev for many years,’ the Vice-Rector said.
For the participants of the event was presented the book ‘Ylaggatty urpak. Zh. Türkpenuly’.
The life path of Zholmukhan Turkpenuly, is directly related to his teaching activities in higher education. He is one of the few scientists who made a significant contribution to the development of pedagogy and psychology in Kazakhstan. Candidate of Pedagogical Sciences, Professor Zholmukhan Turkpenuly has published about 200 works. Among them are 20 monographs and about 50 textbooks on pedagogical and psychological sciences.
In his research the author pays much attention to the issues of professional orientation and choice of future profession for children and young people, which have not lost their relevance today. The book ‘Professional Orientation’ is special and unique. It was published in 1995 and republished in 2014, 2015 by order of the Ministry of Science and Education. The textbook of the scientist ‘Psychology of Education’ (2008, 2018, 2020) is characterised by the diversity of methods and techniques of education of future generations presented in it.
In the course of the meeting were heard reports: art trainer, independent researcher, psychologist Belola Vasiliy Savvovich (Finland), professor of KazNU, director of the Research Centre of Kazakh folklore and literature named after Zhambyl Almasbek Maulenov, doctor of psychological sciences, professor of the University of Warmia and Mazury Nigora Hazratova and others. Zhambyl Almasbek Maulenov, Doctor of Psychological Sciences, Professor of the University of Warmia and Mazury Nigora Hazratova and others. The participants of the event and colleagues of the jubilee Zholmukhan Turkpenuly shared their views on the creative and professional path of the personality, teacher and scientist of Kazakhstan.
Press-service of Al-Farabi Kazakh National University
