PROSPECTS FOR DEVELOPING WINTER TOURISM IN THE KARKARALY MOUNTAINS, KAZAKHSTAN

The paper considers the prospects for developing winter tourism in the Karkaraly mountains on the basis of the identification of the tourist destination potential, the search for management approaches and social and economic measures to stimulate it. The relevance of the paper is to reduce the seasonality factor through the winter tourism development in the geosystems of the Karkaraly mountains. The purpose of the article is to identify the tourism potential and promising areas for the winter tourism development. The research results can be used to implement standard recommendations for effective planning in the recreation and tourism industry, including winter tourism at the regional level and the analysis of its contribution to economic development in the short-, medium- and long term. Research methods include field, descriptive and cartographic methods. Conclusions are made about the prospects for the winter tourism in the territory of the Karkaraly mountains. Based on the stock materials, the winter route was identified, as a result of which a map of the three-day route was developed

Retracted Article: The Use of Virtual Reality in Geo-Education

This article has been retracted by the iJET editorial team: The article on this page has been associated with fraudulent publication practices after its publication in iJET. The work could be linked to a criminal paper mill selling authorships and articles for publication in several online journals to paying customers. The iJET editorial team was initially informed about the paper mill’s fraudulent activities by Dr. Perron (University of Michigan) and his team on 08/03/2021. The investigation results were published on RetractionWatch under https://retractionwatch.com/author/perronetal/ on 12/20/2021. Based on the evidence provided by Dr. Perron and his team, the iJET editorial team considerably questions the paper’s scientific integrity and legitimacy as part of the scientific body. Finally, iJET decided to retract the paper. Neither iJET, Online-Journals.org, nor IAOE stands in any contact with the paper mill’s fraudulent activities. We condemn such procedures and dissociate ourselves from any person or entity, which is knowingly or unknowingly part of it

The possibilities of implementing the ideas of sustainable development in the content of school geography

The article analyzes the possibilities of implementing the ideas of sustainable development in school geography. A review of the literature conducted through keywords shows that there are problems in introducing the ideas of sustainable development into school geography curricula, which is due to the different status of the geography subject in different countries and the predominance of some sustainable development goals over others. In particular, the school geography is dominated by the environmental component of the sustainable development goals, it is expressed mainly in the form of suggestions on how to behave in nature, etc. The results of the analysis of the content of the school geography curriculum in Kazakhstan are presented. In addition, within the framework of the geography course at the school, an attempt was made to identify the main ways to implement the ideas of sustainable development

Au centre est l'État-nation. Le Monde vu par des étudiants du Kazakhstan

International audienceA 2010 survey of more than 10 000 students from 18 countries showed that Central Asia was virtually absent from their representations of the world. In order to check whether this was also the case in the representations of students from this region, this survey was replicated in Kazakhstan, while nevertheless making the assumption that a Central Asian region would be largely represented by the students. While the results confirm important aspects of the theory of social representations of space, they also provide some original insights, showing in particular the very large place given to States, and in particular the Kazakh State, in the breakdown of the World. The prominence of States in Kazakh students' representations of the World can be analysed as a sign of the appropriation of the nation-state model by Kazakh students, some thirty years after the country's independence