Valentina P. Gorlenko
Candidate of Sciences (PhD)
Docent (Associate professor), Department of Pedagogics
Francisk Skorina Gomel State University

EDUCATION
•  Faculty of Philology, specialization: Russian language and literature, Gomel State University, 1975.  
•  Candidate of Pedagogical Sciences (PhD), Minsk State Pedagogical Institute, Minsk, 1981.
•  Diploma of Associate professor, 1990.

PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND
Main appointments:
• Senior pioneer leader, a teacher of Russian language and literature Rudna Marimonovskaya school, 1966-1974.
• Assistant, the Department of pedagogics, Gomel State University, 1974-1977.
• PhD student, the Department of pedagogics, Gomel State University, 1977-1981.
• Lecturer, the Department of pedagogics, Gomel State University, 1981-1984.
• Associate professor, the Department of pedagogics, Gomel State University, 1985-

RESEARCH AREAS
History of educational thought, scientific basis for teaching students, historical and pedagogical aspects of learning and education.

MAIN PUBLICATIONS
Class teacher. – Mіnsk,  1995. – 160 p.
Teaching practice of students: the development of scientific bases: monographs. - Minsk, 2002. - 294 p.
The development of educational thought in Russia and Belarus - Gomel, 2006. – 79 p.
Pedagogy. Tasks for students. - Gomel, 2006. - 49 p.
Academician Ivan Kharlamov: Bibliography. - Gomel, 2005. - 186 p.