An intensive reform of education and studies is being carried out in Lithuania, as well as in the countries of Central and Eastern Europe. The aims and content of higher educational institutions undergo certain changes. Scientific issues have arisen from the ongoing process of changes in the sphere of education. One of the issues discussed in the article deals with the ways by which one gives reasons for a shift from the title of the same discipline methodics of subject education to that of subject didactics. A relationship between didactics (methodics) and the fundamental sciences – pedagogy and the corresponding study (geography) – has been examined in the present study. A multidimensional as well as multi-staged system of subject educological studies is proposed to be compiled as a perspective. One of its models is introduced.

Keywords: methodics of subject education, didactics, subject educological studies