Improvement of mechanisms for providing students with quality knowledge is one of the priority areas in our time. The research aims to analyse the effectiveness of the use of methods of teaching the subject “economic and social geography” and their improvement. The research aims to provide recommendations to eliminate errors in the functioning of this mechanism and to disclose the problems of development of teaching economic and social geography. Among the used methods analytical method, functional method, method of system analysis, method of deduction, method of comparison, and method of synthesis were applied. In the process of conducting the study, the features of pedagogy in the process of teaching the subject of economic and social geography, as well as their comparison with other generally accepted methodologies were pointed out. Ineffective mechanisms that need improvement for use in modern teaching practices were found. Assessment of economic and social geography teaching tools was also considered. It was determined that in the system of higher education geographical disciplines, as well as other subjects, need to improve quality, by changing the existing methodological system, as well as modernization of processes and optimization of methods and technologies of the educational process organization. The practical value lies in the use of the identified results, solving the problems associated

with improving the effectiveness of training for the teaching of the subject, to bring this process to a new level.

Highlights

• The research relevance of the teaching of economic and social geography is predefined by the fact that the education system is an important driving force of world development and the main factor of its stability.