Biography

Natalia Zhuk (12 December 1959, the village of Osypenko, Berdiansk district, Zaporizhzhia oblast);

2002 – PhD in Psychology;

2006 – Associate Professor.

An Associate Professor of the Department of Psychology at Berdiansk State Pedagogical University.

1979 – finished school and worked as a senior young pioneer organizer;

1981 – combined her work as a primary school teacher and study at the institute;

1984 – graduated from the Faculty of Primary School Teacher Training at P.D. Osypenko State Teachers’ Training Institute of Berdiansk and started working at it;

1993 – entered the postgraduate school of Berdiansk Teachers’ Training Institute as per program subject area 19.00.07 – Pedagogical and Developmental Psychology;

2001 – defended her PhD thesis Formation of Motives for Nature Conservation in Junior Schoolchildren (thesis adviser – Vasyl K. Demydenko, a Doctor of Psychology, a Professor, an Associate of the Academy of Pedagogical Sciences of Ukraine);

2001 – worked as an Associate Professor of the Department of Psychology at BSPU;

2006 – was conferred an academic title of an Associate Professor;

2006 – worked as an Associate Professor of the Department of Professional Pedagogy and Methods of Professional Training;

2011 – has been an Associate Professor of the Department of Psychology at the Institute of Psychological and Pedagogical Education and Fine Arts.

Areas of scientific interest: professional motivation of students.