CARTOGRAPHIC COMPETENCE OF A GEOGRAPHY TEACHER - CURRENT STATE AND PERSPECTIVE

The national educational program in Slovak Republic is an obligatory document which specifies the general objectives of education and key competencies to which the learning has to lead. Competencies should be the main carrier of the idea that students should not learn only by memorizing facts, but they have to be competent to apply their knowledge in solving life situations. Therefore, the key competencies are obligatory for all teachers. In the case of geography teachers cartographic competence is necessary. Besides traditional form of acquisition of this competence, it is currently necessary to directly interconnect it with digital competence. The aim of the paper is to analyze the current state of cartographic competence using a survey on the sample of geography teachers at primary and secondary schools as well as students of geography teaching. Its results will contribute to the proposal of changes in undergraduate training of future geography teachers.