Quality Assurance System for Science Education. Problems of school science education

APPROVE

Deputy Minister of Education of the Russian Federation

V.D. Shadrikov

“_27__”__03_______________2000

281 ped/mag __________________

education

MOSCOW 2000

1.O GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS OF THE DIRECTION

1.2 Graduate degree (qualification) – Master of Science Education ( indicating the program of specialized training)

Normative term for the development of the main educational program for the preparation of a master in the direction 540100 Natural science education in full-time education - 6 years. The main educational program for preparing a master consists of a bachelor's program in the relevant direction (4 years) and a specialized master's program ( 2 years).

1.3. Qualification characteristics of a graduate

• research;
• teaching;
• educational and methodical;
• correctional-developing;
• consulting;
• cultural and educational;
• organizational and educational;
• socio-pedagogical.

1. Opportunities for continuing education.

The master is prepared for postgraduate study mainly in scientific specialties:

13.00.00 Pedagogical sciences

02.00.00 Chemical sciences

03.00.00 Biological sciences

04.00.00 Geological and mineralogical sciences

1.5. Annotated list of master's programs (problematic area of ​​the field of study):

The program is focused on expanding the range of knowledge about chemical processes and technologies for obtaining organic and inorganic substances. Provides for the mastery of modern methodology and technology of chemical and chemical-methodological research. Provides training for specialists capable of designing and implementing educational programs in chemistry in various types of educational institutions.

540102 Biological education

The program is focused on deepening knowledge in the field of methodology, history and topical problems of modern biological science and teaching methods in the relevant field of knowledge, disclosure of research methods adopted in modern scientific and scientific-methodical practice. It involves the training of specialists to work in different types of educational institutions (secondary and higher) of the biological and biological-ecological profile.

540103 Geographical education

The program provides for expanding the scope of competence in the field of physical and geographical knowledge, mastering modern methods of geographical, geoecological research, including monitoring of natural and natural-economic systems. It is focused on the training of specialists capable of carrying out research activities, designing and implementing educational programs in natural science and geography.

The program is focused on the implementation of the idea of ​​presenting environmental science as an interdisciplinary one, involving the integration of natural science, humanitarian and socio-economic knowledge, the disclosure of methodological and theoretical foundations for the formation of environmental culture in modern society. It involves the training of specialists capable of designing the content of educational and research programs in different types of educational institutions.

5.1. The term for mastering the main educational program for the preparation of a master in full-time education 312 weeks, including:

bachelor's educational program - 208 weeks

specialized master's program - 104 weeks,

theoretical training, including research work of students, workshops, including laboratory work 72 weeks

examination sessions, at least 2 weeks

practice for at least 13 weeks, including:

research practice - at least 7 weeks,

scientific and pedagogical practice - at least 6 weeks,

final state certification, including the defense of the final qualifying work - at least 2 weeks

holidays (including 8 weeks of postgraduate leave) - at least 17 weeks

6.1.1. A higher educational institution independently develops and approves the main educational program for preparing a master, implemented by the university on the basis of this state educational standard for a master.

Elective disciplines are compulsory, and optional disciplines provided for by the curriculum of a higher educational institution are not mandatory for a student to study.

Course papers (projects) in disciplines are considered as a type of academic work in the discipline and are performed within the hours allotted for its study.

For all disciplines and practices included in the curriculum of a higher educational institution, a final grade (excellent, good, satisfactory, unsatisfactory or passed, not passed) should be given.

During the period of validity of this document, the list of master's programs can be changed and supplemented in the prescribed manner.

Requirements for the research part of the program

Research work involves independent research work of a student under the guidance of a highly qualified supervisor.

The research part of the master's program should ensure that students acquire the following skills :

6.2. Requirements for the conditions for the implementation of the main educational program for the preparation of a master, including its research part

6.2.1. Education in the magistracy is carried out in accordance with the individual work plan of the undergraduate student, developed with the participation of the scientific supervisor of the undergraduate and the scientific supervisor of the master's program, taking into account the wishes of the undergraduate. The individual curriculum of the undergraduate is approved by the dean of the faculty.

6.2.2. Requirements for staffing the educational process

The implementation of the main educational program for the preparation of a master should be provided by teaching staff, having a basic education corresponding to the profile of the taught discipline and an appropriate qualification (degree), systematically engaged in research and scientific and methodological activities; Based on real data, UMO can determine the required proportion of teachers with academic degrees and titles.

6.2.3. Requirements for educational and methodological support of the educational process

The implementation of the main educational program for the preparation of a master should be carried out at a high level, which implies the availability of the necessary laboratory, practical and information support for the educational process for the preparation of highly qualified researchers and teachers, including a list of professional journals, abstract journals, requirements for scientific literature; an indication of the availability of information bases and access to various network sources of information;

All disciplines of the curriculum must be provided with educational and methodological documentation for all types of training sessions - workshops, course and diploma design, practices, and by the time of certification of the direction, the level of provision with educational and methodological literature must be at least 0.5 copies per 1 full-time student ;

The implementation of the main educational program for the preparation of a master should be provided with access for each student to library funds and databases, as well as visual aids, multimedia, audio, video materials.

6.2.4. Requirements for the material and technical support of the educational process

A higher educational institution that implements the main educational program for the preparation of a master must have a material and technical base that meets the current sanitary and technical standards and provides for all types of training and research work of students provided for by the exemplary curriculum.

Research practice is conducted on the basis of educational and research institutions, which can be considered as experimental sites for research in the field of science education. During the practice, students are given the opportunity to conduct experimental research according to a program previously developed by them. It is preferable to carry out research on the topic master's thesis. Based on the results of the practice, the student provides an analytical report describing the methodology and the results of the experimental study.

7.1.1. General requirements for the level of master's training are determined by the content of a similar section of the requirements for the level of bachelor's training and the requirements due to specialized training. The requirements for the level of preparation of a bachelor are set out in clause 7 of the state educational standard for higher professional education of a bachelor in the direction 540100 Science education.

7.1.2. The requirements stipulated by the specialized training of the master include:

possession of the skills of planning and organizing independent research and scientific and pedagogical activities, preparation and collection of scientific materials, taking into account the use of modern information technologies;

skill formulate and solve scientific and applied problems that require in-depth professional knowledge;

7.1.3.Special Requirements . Requirements for the preparation of a master in the research part of the specialized training program are determined by the university. The UMO may additionally recommend requirements that enable the graduate to perform certain types of professional activities, reflecting the content of specialized training.

7.2.1. General requirements for the state final certification.

The final state certification of the master of science education includes the defense of the final qualifying work (master's thesis) and the state exam.

The final attestation tests are designed to determine the practical and theoretical readiness of the master of natural science education to fulfill the educational tasks established by this state educational standard and continue education in graduate school in accordance with clause 1.4 of the above standard.

At the request of students, the university can conduct additional state exams in the disciplines that are included in the list of entrance exams for graduate school. Grades obtained by students in all state exams can be counted as the results of entrance exams to postgraduate studies: 13.00.00 Pedagogical sciences; 02.00.00 Chemical sciences; 03.00.00 Biological sciences; 04.00.00 Geological and mineralogical sciences.

7.2.2. Requirements for a master's thesis

The master's thesis must be submitted in the form of a manuscript.

Requirements for the content, volume and structure of the master's thesis are determined by the higher educational institution on the basis of the Regulations on the final state certification of graduates of higher educational institutions, approved by the Ministry of Education of Russia, the state educational standard in the direction 540100 Natural science education and methodological recommendations of the UMO.

The time allotted for the preparation of the qualification work is at least twenty weeks for the master.

1. Requirements for the State Examination of Master of Science Education

The procedure for conducting and the program of the state exam in the direction 540100 Science education are determined by the university on the basis of methodological recommendations and the corresponding exemplary program developed by the UMO for teacher education, the Regulations on the final state certification of graduates of higher educational institutions, approved by the Ministry of Education of Russia, and the state educational standard in the direction 540100 Science education.

The level of requirements for state examinations in the magistracy must correspond to the level of requirements for entrance examinations to graduate school or candidate examinations in non-major disciplines for the relevant scientific direction.

Educational and Methodological Association of Russian Universities

in Pedagogical Education (on the basis of A.I. Herzen Russian State Pedagogical University)

Head of Department

pedagogical education ____________________ V.E. Inozemtseva

Natural education is based on natural processes that exist independently of humanity, just as the sun, Earth, molecules, atoms exist. The task of science is to discover all new natural processes that will help humanity not to fall into crisis conditions that arise artificially during the existence of civilization, when it is mismanaged. Natural science should increase knowledge in education in a natural way, which will improve the health, morality of the population of the Earth, the development of civilization and other new sciences. These sciences will discover new laws of natural processes and help restore a successful, peaceful education of all generations without problems with the improvement of health, wisdom and the restoration of natural laws without negative artificial ones invented by someone who does not have the right to do so.

Natural processes develop morally harmoniously with moral evolution, and the task of scientists, with the help of basic evidence, is to teach the population of the Earth to live naturally, educate themselves and the new generation naturally, naturally develop their true civilization only morally without criminals and without crimes. It is necessary to learn how to cure all incurable diseases and apply natural processes to improve the healthy lifestyle in every family and family members in all generations in the country, without disturbing the natural natural structure and improving growth to higher harmony. In this way, science will grow without problems, and the laws of nature will be respected by the population of every country. Then there will be no problems in the state that arise due to the replacement of natural nature with artificial nature with artificial knowledge, with artificial laws, with artificial education of oneself and children with an unwillingness to improve themselves naturally. If science naturally does not work in a country where this science exists, then there will be crises, apocalypses, doomsdays in the state, there will be a “scientific famine”, and therefore there will be “magicians”, prophets, sects, attacks by other countries to develop an information war , for experiments. What experiments are needed for natural processes? What scientific discoveries are needed so that marriage is not called marriage? What laws are needed to teach parents to educate themselves and the next generation in a natural way? How should science explain to the people that in every country there are natural processes and that the rulers and their peoples do not need to follow the path artificially created by the crisis? For the work of natural scientists, there are many questions that they can answer.

Science must confirm the correctness of reverence for natural processes so that the state does not distort its harmony, and then, if at this stage the healthy work of natural processes in the state is correctly performed, then science, as a scout, will begin to explore new natural processes ahead of everyone to improve the growth of understanding of harmony theoretically and practically the population of a country on the whole Earth. Science should not develop along the path of destroying itself and those around it, should not use natural processes for artificial destructive formations that can lead to degradation not only of the current generation, but also subsequent ones. The scientific worker is, as it were, a super-parent for the surrounding people, and the further application of natural processes in generations depends on his research. The responsibility of a scientific worker to the state and its people always exists because the state and the people trust science, but there are not always moral scientists in science who would be patriots of their Motherland.

As soon as a scientist discovers something new in natural processes, he is not always ready for these discoveries, either because of his naivety and therefore others can take his discoveries and use them for other purposes, or because of stupidity with a desire to conquer the whole world and take the name of God. Such a scientist wants to subdue the natural processes for evil actions against the population of the Earth. He fell ill with mental illness and naively believes that natural processes will submit to him. Natural processes are always healthy and cannot be controlled by sick beings. If someone else wants to change natural processes in an immoral direction, then he can greatly mutilate himself with such immoral diligence, since all natural processes cannot be controlled by immoral ones. Natural processes are like a nesting doll one in one in a different state of aggregation, in different dimensions of time and space. If there are still those who want to subdue any dimension or state of aggregation of natural processes in an immoral direction, then when restored for normal operation, natural elements can, like a spring, "hit" the scientist first of all on his health, on his authority, on his discovery, and can at best, remove it from its scientific place so that it does no more harm. In the worst case, such a research worker can disfigure himself and harm his clan and family. Atlantis and other civilizations perished from illiterate scientists, which left their descendants with destruction not only physical, but also informational.

Science education will give any country a wise generation with a natural development of wealth, happiness, success, good luck everywhere and in everything, in family and matrimonial happiness and the best wise prospects. Therefore, many illiterate scientists try to restrain the natural processes in education and in the upbringing of a wise generation, which will always distinguish the true natural process from the false one. Therefore, for harming themselves, countries are trying to introduce juvenile justice so that families are afraid to give birth to children and so that the state raises more homeless children and orphans who were artificially deprived of their families and therefore are artificially brought up in absentia so that children dream of a family of their own and be at a distance from the family. Education needs to know not only natural processes, but also to apply them in a timely manner for different ages in full without problems. Normal mentally healthy natural education does not need the artificial promptings of other countries that compete, contend and do not intend to help the education of another country naturally form itself in a moral direction.

Natural processes are always visible because they are beautiful, harmonious, easy to digest and easy to use. They need to be opened for a certain stage in the development of civilization with improvement. It is necessary to revitalize all the processes of theory and practice, which will help open up new stages of development with better natural education and the use of natural processes. Each scientific discovery should bring large incomes not only to itself, but also to the country, to the people without harm in all generations. All discoveries that brought disaster to the people need to be reviewed and brought to moral use, or to get rid of immoral artificial discoveries and their consequences so that the people, the country, the Earth do not suffer in the future.

The science of natural processes is the most important stage of development on which the natural formation and health of civilization depend. A healthy people will always help scientists with their wisdom to learn the natural processes of nature, regardless of nationality, religion and age. As soon as science teaches the population to distinguish freely, accurately, truth from falsehood, then science will automatically move to a higher stage of development, where natural processes are not mixed with artificial and false ones. Natural processes need to develop regardless of whether scientists want to recognize them and justify them correctly, or want to develop artificial, temporary, discoveries that are not related to natural processes, such science is waiting for a child to come and say, as in a fairy tale: “And the king is - naked!". If scientific workers do not want to disgrace themselves before the younger generation for their scientific works, for their unverified treatises copied from somewhere else, then it is better to let everyone correct in their place everything that the scientific worker has spoiled. At first, he spoiled the theory, then the practice, because he did not, as a scientist, justify natural processes in a natural competent way, and his whole life, as a liar with false teaching, passes in fear and therefore such scientists compete with others so that false discoveries are not revealed and natural truth.

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Simonov Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Didactic bases of natural science education (Theory and practice of realization of a humanitarian paradigm): Dis.... kand. ... Dr. ped. Sciences: 13.00.01: Volgograd, 2000 403 p. RSL OD, 71:01-13/166-4

Introduction

Chapter 1 Problems of compliance of natural science education with the new educational paradigm 30

1.1 Modern natural science: the problem of the human dimension 31

1.2 Phenomenon, problems and prospects of the natural sciences

education 52

Conclusions on the first chapter 85

Chapter 2 Humanitarianization of science education 86

2.1 Trends in the humanization of modern education, a plurality of approaches 87

2.2 Personal approach in the system of principles of science education 107

2.3 Essential characteristics of science education 139

2.4 Humanitarian orientation of science education: model of the educational situation 154

Conclusions on the second chapter 175

Chapter 3 Technological support of humanities-oriented science education 177

3.1 Humanitarian components of ENO, their nature and ways of inclusion in the educational process 177

3.2 Pedagogical means and conditions for the humanization of natural sciences 198

3.3 General criteria for the humanitarian orientation of science education 234

Conclusions on the third chapter 241

Chapter 4 Implementation of a humanitarian-oriented model of natural science education 242

4.1 Orientation to the concept of humanization in the development of the standard and educational programs of the block of natural sciences 242

4.2 Implementation of the ideas of humanitarization of science education at various levels of design 271

4.3 Creation and testing of program and methodological materials based on the concept of humanization 288

Conclusions on the fourth chapter 323

Conclusion 324

Bibliography 329

Appendix 342

Introduction to work

The relevance of the problem under development. The system of general education in Russia is in the process of reform. Repeated attempts to modernize it did not lead to serious success, since they did not change the conceptual foundations. The humanitarian paradigm contains the desire of mankind to penetrate into the depths of the subjective world of the individual, to present as the main value of a particular person, his inner space and the specifics of the individual development process. Therefore, it is natural to revise the guidelines: from pragmatic "Zunov" education to education focused on the formation of the personality, from unambiguous standards for "transferring" the content of education to the student to subjective, personified knowledge, suggesting an individual vision of the world, which always has an author in its uniqueness (I. A. Kolesnikov). In this regard, more and more attention is paid to the consideration of the state of natural science education (SES), which is a significant part of the general and plays an important role in the formation of a holistic world of man.

Modern ENO reflects the state of civilization, its problems. The one-sided reflection of the objective world in the content of ENO, the focus only on mastering the forces of nature and the constant increase in the volume of knowledge have led to many problems. These include nihilism in relation to nature, ecological recklessness, the priority of the utilitarian, artificial over natural, technocratic thinking, dehumanization, loss of spiritual values, etc. With this approach, a person is separated from the rest of the world, is not an essential part of it, which leaves an imprint on the consciousness of the younger generation and the worldview of an individual. On a personal level, this manifests itself in

the structure of personality begins to be dominated by pragmatism and spiritual impoverishment, the dominance of anti-scientific prejudices and the decline in the prestige of education. The origins of this, among other reasons, should be sought in the flaws in the education system, in the orientation of natural science disciplines to positivist mechanistic principles.

Natural science education - the basis of scientific and technological progress - has a huge role in the development of social systems, the level of applied industrial, agricultural and defense technologies. This fact is recognized in the world, especially in industrialized countries. At the same time, in Russia - a country with the richest traditions and achievements in the field of natural sciences - the opposite trend is brewing: a decrease in the number of hours for subjects of this cycle, an increase in the number of humanitarian and practice-oriented disciplines at the expense of natural sciences, the loss of traditions and previously achieved.

Comparison of a typical curriculum of the early 80s. and the basic curriculum of 1993 shows that in the process of reforms, natural science disciplines lost 15 hours out of 54 teaching hours in grades 1-11, or about 39% of the time. The Law of the Russian Federation "On Education" transferred the development of curricula and programs to educational institutions. As a result, basic courses in physics, chemistry, geography and biology are transferred to the category of additionally paid services or are unreasonably reduced in time, or partially replaced by new courses, sometimes having neither scientific and methodological justification, nor proper experimental verification.

To date, natural science subjects are united in the educational area "Natural Disciplines", for the study of which in grades 10-11 4 week hours are allotted. The explanatory note emphasizes: “The educational area “Natural disciplines” consists of natural science, physical geography, biologists,

physics, astronomy, chemistry, ecology and other subjects, in the set of hours and subjects that the region and the school need. Later, a clarifying wording was adopted, which instead of the word “compose” indicated that this area “can be represented by courses ...” (206. p. 38) As a result, a wide variety of short-hour courses appeared, systematic courses were abandoned in favor of integrated with an inevitable drop in depth, quality,

fundamentality and other education. This is in conflict with the new educational paradigm, which proclaimed fundamentality, integrity and orientation to the interests of the formation of the human personality as the ideals of education. The TIMSS study (TIMSS hird International Mathematics and Science Study), conducted in Russia, showed that the quality of training of our students is significantly lower compared to the countries that make up the first group. The results of the research showed that 11% of the best eighth-graders in Russia have educational achievements corresponding to the first level, 29% of students - to the second level and 56% have the third level. These results are significantly lower compared to the countries in the first group.

If, according to the second international study of students' knowledge in mathematics and science, conducted in 1990-1991. our schoolchildren took 4-5th places in terms of the quality of knowledge. Then, according to the results of an international study conducted in 1995, we were already on the 16th (Mulis I., Mactin M. Boston, USA, 1998).

In today's natural science, a paradoxical situation has developed: on the one hand, undeniable successes in the knowledge of the objective world, in mastering the forces of nature and an ever-growing amount of knowledge, on the other hand, this huge store of accumulated knowledge does not allow a person to navigate the world with the proper degree of success. In most approaches, the content is predominantly focused on

informing about the phenomena and laws of nature, almost does not involve independent research, variability of opinions, points of view, dialogue, philosophical reflection. From a positivist position, content is selected, curricula and programs are built, which are based on the rule “science-a subject”. This information and reference approach is based on the positions of scientism, strict logical determination of conclusions, low problem content of education, which causes alienation of the cognizing subject from the object of cognition. The real characteristics of today's curricula include: weak differentiation, object-subject orientation (V.V. Davydov), reproductive reproduction of knowledge, social and state priorities to the detriment of the interests of a developing personality, lack of demand for the creative potential of students.

Thus, the task arises - to prevent the loss of that valuable that has been accumulated, to exaggerate achievements, to find the specific possibilities of the disciplines of this cycle in terms of the formation of the individual.

To answer the question of how successfully school practice manages to implement the ideas of the humanitarian paradigm and how its ideas are understood, we interviewed more than 500 teachers of natural science disciplines of various age categories in general education institutions located in areas with different socio-economic infrastructure. It was found that in most cases teaching is based on values ​​focused on the disclosure of objective reality that lie outside a particular person. Professional value is narrow-subject knowledge,

implementation of clear rules for its transfer. The most important indicator of the effectiveness of training is the mark, which is subsequently transferred to the assessment of the individual. The survey made it possible to reveal the fact that orientation towards humanitarianization is carried out spontaneously.

Teachers were asked three sets of questions. The first one is aimed at identifying the nature of understanding by teachers of the essence of the humanitarian paradigm. Let us dwell only on the main results of the study. More than 65% found it difficult to answer the question of what is the essence and main directions of humanization and humanitarization of education. More than 80% did not bother with the question of the difference between various concepts of humanitarization. No more than 40% of respondents were able to characterize the meaning of the ongoing changes in the teaching of disciplines of the natural science cycle in the transition from a knowledge-based to a personality-oriented model. The second set of questions revealed the nature of understanding and practical approaches that can be implemented within the framework of humanitarization. The humanization of education is interpreted as:

Reduction in the number of hours for the natural sciences and an increase in the humanities - 12%;

Introduction of additional humanitarian disciplines - 9%

Changing the content of education through the introduction of historical, ethical, aesthetic, philosophical and other aspects - 24%;

Changing the teaching methods (non-traditional lessons, industrial excursions, going out into nature, individualization and differentiation) - 18%;

Organization of cooperation and use of the ideas of innovative teachers - 21%;

Orientation to the development of the personality, its abilities and capabilities - 4%;

The use of humanitarian-oriented technologies - 4% The third block of questions (the method of independent examinations was used)

was aimed at identifying the degree of readiness of teachers to carry out humanitarization. This readiness was assessed by us as the formation of skills: to use the humanitarian potential of the subject (we are talking about one of the means of humanization) - 59%;

construct a system of humanitarian-oriented situations within their subject - 8%; apply humanitarian-oriented teaching technologies - 14%; to diagnose the personal functions of students and, on this basis, to carry out diagnostic goal-setting -12%; select tasks and business games in the context of students' personal needs - 62%. As follows from the results, mass practice is experiencing a clear lack of ideas about the humanitarization of natural science education, and attempts to implement it occur spontaneously.

These emerging problems can be explained by a decrease in the motivation of natural science education, its social status; this is the result of the pragmatic role assigned to natural science, its insufficient influence on the development and formation of the personality, the orientation of education towards soulless assimilation and reproduction of material, as well as the lack of a systematic consideration and solution of the problem of humanization in didactics and private methods. Rethinking the role and place of science in human life, increasing failures in teaching natural sciences require different approaches to

definition of goals, objectives, selection of the content and technologies of the ENO.

Science education is designed to provide a holistic

idea of ​​the place, role and responsibility of man for cosmogenesis, to focus on understanding the limits of what is permissible in interaction with nature, the measure of freedom and responsibility of man as an individual and a representative of the species, to promote the formation of value

orientation of students in relation to the studied reality.

Science education in Russia has always been given special importance. At present, the content of the educational block "natural science" has been substantiated, taking into account: the ratio of the main sections of natural science (V.I. Kuznetsov, G.M. Idlis, V.N. Gutina); logical-epistemological and sociological aspects of this educational

regions (V.A. Dmitrenko, A.N. Kochergin, V.S. Shvyrev, etc.); functions and main characteristics of the scientific picture of the world, the philosophical foundations of science (V.I. Bakhmin, I.S. Dyshlevskiy, M.V. Mostepanenko, B.S. Stepin, etc.); the essence of interdisciplinary skills and integrated operations (T.A. Aleksandrova, N.D. Zverev, V.N. Maksimova, etc.); principles of selection and presentation of scientific concepts and theories (E.M. Aleksakhina, L.Ya. Zorina, V.S. Lednev, I.Ya. Lerner, A.M. Sohor, etc.). More and more attention in science education is paid to the ideas of co-evolution based on the traditions of Russian cosmism (N.G. Umov, N.G. Kholodny, V.I. Vernadsky, K.E. Tsiolkovsky, A.L. Chizhevsky). Within the framework of these ideas, works have recently appeared (I.Yu. Aleksashina, T.E. Zorina, E.B. Spasskaya, etc.), which indicate the place and role of natural science disciplines in the system of global education. An important place in today's searches is given to noospheric education (T.K. Pavlo, I.I. Sokolova, etc.). It is based on an integral, systemic view of the world, in which human life and activity are considered in the integral process of the universe.

However, the issues of the development of Man himself by means of

science education, communication with nature in the performed studies are presented extremely fragmentary. Since the relationship of an emerging person with the natural world can be adequately mastered only through natural science education, it must be oriented to the individual, humanized (V.V. Serikov) Humanitarian-oriented natural science education is designed to enable a person, as part of nature, to realize not only the natural world but also their place in this world. The humanitarian worldview implies a holistic orientation in the complex phenomena of the natural world, and this is possible only if there is a high level and modern methods of learning the basics of science. The task of a holistic

the harmonious development of the spiritual and material forces of a person, which implies the integration of the rational and the irrational in cognition.

The surge of interest in the humanitarian sphere has reoriented the canons of education in the direction of their openness, flexibility, and variability. The most important trend in the development of educational systems was the transition to a personality-oriented paradigm (N.A. Alekseev, E.V. Bondarevskaya, I.A. Kolesnikova, V.V. Serikov, V.I. Slobodchikov, A.P. Tryapitsyna, E. N. Shiyanov, I.S. Yakimanskaya). A new system of worldview has arisen and has received proof of its effectiveness, as well as a new system of education, which includes a person in the processes of cognition with new, personally oriented means aimed at creating situations of demand for the values ​​and meanings of knowledge and personal experience. The priority is not the development of program knowledge, but the knowledge addressed by the teacher directly to the individual, his problems, to the experience of personal creation, meaning creation, self-organization, not subject requirements, but pedagogical support. It is necessary to address the semantic and value bases of this type of education.

At the current stage, there are already many works confirming the expediency and effectiveness of this approach in the humanities. However, direct use

the conceptual base and didactic support of a student-centered learning model, developed, tested and implemented for humanitarian subjects, is not enough for a direct transfer to ENO.

Approaches to the humanitarization of ENO are quite diverse and sometimes contradictory, and at the level of practice, the technocratic nature still prevails: reduction of hours for studying natural sciences, manipulation of verbal constructs such as: “physics for everyone”, rejection of holistic, systemic, deep courses, simplification of the mathematical apparatus, inclusion in the content

the subject of "additional" humanitarian information, etc. The creators of educational programs are moving away from the realization that school graduates will have to live and work in a highly technological society, in the world of information technology. All this involves the development of a conceptual framework for the humanitarization of the ENO, focused on the formation of a positive attitude, confidence that the world is expedient, harmonious, humane, cognizable; that the trainee will be able to acquire a sufficient amount of knowledge and skills for a confident and fulfilling life in harmony with nature. We proceed from the fact that the humanization of natural science education involves understanding the fundamental laws of nature by the student, the formation of a value attitude towards it, is focused on modern methodologies of knowledge, the idea of ​​co-evolution of man with nature, as well as the use of methods of cognition that were previously characteristic of the humanities: the rejection of inviolability truths, the inclusion of science in the system of culture, the plurality of worldview and dialogism as a style of thinking of the era, the integrity and social orientation of knowledge, aesthetic criteria of truth, the ideal of a creative scientist, etc.

The humanitarian nature of education is due not only to a change in content, but also to a qualitative transformation of the cognitive activity itself, the position of the subject in this process. However, these questions have not yet been properly developed in scientific research. Thus, there was a need to develop the scientific foundations of education, requiring a personal position, subjectivity of the student.

The concept of humanitarization of education that we are developing is based on fundamental didactic research devoted to the nature of pedagogical knowledge (V.V. Kraevsky), the integrity of the educational process (V.C. Ilyin, I.Ya. Lerner, M.N. Skatkin), personality-developing learning functions (E. V. Bondarevskaya, N.V. Bochkina, Z.I.

Vasilyeva, V.V. Gorshkova, T.N. Malkova, A.P. Tryapitsyn),

the specific nature of pedagogical activity (V.N. Zagvyazinsky, I.A. Kolesnikova, V.A. Slastenin), to special studies devoted to this problem (I.Yu. Aleksashina, V.I. Danilchuk, I.D. Pekhlevetsky and etc.)

Based on the above, the theoretical problems of natural science education can be formulated as the following contradictions between:

The high potential of the fundamental base of natural science education and its insufficient focus on the development of the individual;

The variety of attempts to humanize science education by introducing humanitarian information and the lack of a holistic concept that reveals the essential features of the phenomenon of humanization in teaching natural sciences;

The identically perceived concepts of "humanities" and "humanities" as a holistic attitude to the world, as a result of which there is a need to realize that the humanitarian nature of natural science knowledge is its focus on a person's knowledge of himself and his place in the world, to which he comes as a result knowledge of reality;

The focus of natural science disciplines on an increasingly complete presentation of the amount of information of a scientific level and the lack of due attention to the semantic and value areas of students;

The construction of curricula focused on the logic of science, on the division and differentiation with the aim of a deeper study of the material, a fragmentary reflection of subject knowledge and the expediency of reflecting in them modern methodological ideas of human-centrism in cognition, synergetics, ideas of a methodological nature that contribute to a holistic and contextual perception of the problem;

The focus on presenting only objective knowledge about nature and the need to form a value attitude towards it, the responsibility that falls on graduates in modern conditions, the focus on the ideas of co-evolution of man and nature;

Focusing the educational process on extensive learning options with the priority of traditional forms and methods of mastering knowledge and the need to reflect new ideas aimed at modeling situations of scientific search, developing an emotional-sensory attitude to systems of living and inanimate nature, discoveries, research, contextual and simulation-game models and focus on modern methodology of knowledge, preparing students for life in a rich information environment.

Considering the need to change the methodology for building natural science education; its orientation, in which the development of the personality becomes not a concomitant appendage of training, but a priority goal; developing ways to introduce humanitarian components into the content of these disciplines and humanitarian technologies, which provide the possibility of including the meaning of nature cognition in the system of leading life-sense values ​​of a developing personality, as well as the school's social order for an intellectually developed personality who owns modern methods of scientific knowledge; successfully entering into a rich technogenic and information environment; a person who is able to harmoniously build his relationship with nature, who has the prerequisites for continuous self-education and the unpreparedness of the national system

science education to effectively solve this problem, the lack of the necessary scientific and methodological substantiation of this process in a general education school, the research topic was chosen - "Didactic foundations of science education: theory and practice of implementing the humanitarian paradigm".

The object of the study is science education in secondary school.

The subject of the study is the system of didactic conditions for the design and implementation of a humanitarian-oriented natural science education for secondary school students.

The purpose of the study is to develop the scientific basis for the design and software and methodological support of a humanitarianly oriented natural science education in a secondary school.

In conducting the study, we proceeded from a system of hypothetical assumptions. A humanitarianly oriented ENO will contribute to the harmonization of human relations with nature, stimulate intellectual development and prepare for effective environmentally responsible activities in the information society and modern technologies, if:

1. The design of the pedagogical process will be based on the understanding of the humanization of natural science education as a way of organizing cognitive activity, focused on the holistic development of natural reality by the subject and his awareness of his place in the integral natural and social world.

2. When developing educational programs, the authors will rely on:

Modern ideas about the fundamental nature of education (focus on revealing deep, essential foundations and connections between various processes of the surrounding world and the origin of knowledge about these foundations);

The ideas of the integrity of education, suggesting that general natural science disciplines as carriers of fundamental knowledge are not a set of traditional courses, but single cycles of fundamental disciplines united by a common target function and interdisciplinary connections;

Such content selection principles as complementarity (science, culture, nature), authorship (original tasks and solutions), uniqueness (personal vision);

Methodology for the theoretical development of the world (modeling, the principle of correspondence; symmetry);

Variety of scientific pictures of the world and concepts of its knowledge (systemic, synergetic, informational approaches);

The idea of ​​co-evolutionary interaction between man and the surrounding world;

The principle of self-development of the personal-semantic position of the cognizing subject as a specifically human way of mastering the world.

3. The construction of the invariant component of the natural sciences will be focused on key issues: the subject and society, the subject in the transformative practice of man and everyday life, the subject as a factor in the organization of philosophical and spiritual experiences, the subject as a system of methodology and methods of cognition.

4. An integrating worldview basis for the content of a natural science subject will be a system of value aspects: the value of knowledge of nature and awareness of the limits of a person's "transformative" capabilities; the value of the experience of cognition of natural phenomena and the recognition of nature as a specific "subject" of communication; the value of conventional norms and interpersonal agreements, as well as the very procedures for the joint development of a position in relation to nature; self-worth of the individual as a peculiar way of uniting man with nature; the value of freedom of action and responsibility on the scale of humanity and the planet.

5. Cognitive activity in the field of natural science education involves the use of regulators traditionally attributed to the humanities (dialogism, openness to the new,

intuition, understanding of the versatility of the world, variability of its perception, figurative thinking, translation from an objective external language into an internal language of figurative-conceptual models of reality, increased attention to the value-semantic content of the knowledge received, individual, author's "personal" knowledge).

6. The strategy of the teacher's pedagogical activity will include a system of pedagogical tools specific to a given educational area and at the same time humanitarian-oriented, which make up the technological support for the humanization of natural science education. This system is based on the consistent inclusion of students in an educational situation in which the solution of natural science problems and the holistic assimilation of the humanitarian aspects of natural science disciplines mutually condition and complement each other (humanitarian-oriented situations). In the structure of this integral pedagogical situation (system), its modifications are distinguished depending on the goals of the subject area, the age of the students.

7. The subject of study in a humanitarianly oriented cognitive situation, as a special set of didactic conditions for the assimilation of natural science, will be integrated aspects of the relationship between man and nature.

8. The formation of a holistic picture of the world as a system-forming link in the worldview of students will be considered as an integrating goal of ENO, presented in educational standards and provided with a system of technologies.

The definition of the goal and hypothesis made it possible to formulate the main objectives of the study:

1. Conduct an analysis of the state and evaluate the experience of domestic

schools in the field of humanization of natural science education, to identify the main approaches and trends in solving this problem.

2. Reveal the essence, criteria and conditions for the humanization of natural science education.

3. To develop a generalized didactic model of a humanitarianly oriented study of the natural science educational field.

4. Substantiate the system of didactic tools that ensure the humanitarian orientation of teaching natural sciences.

The methodological basis and sources of the study were: the ideas of the humanization of education (V.I. Danilchuk, V.V. Serikov, V.A. Izvozchikov, A.A. Kasyan, V.I. Sarantsev, etc.); the concept of holistic system analysis (P.K. Anokhin, V.S. Ilyin, V.V. Kraevsky, I.Ya. Lerner, V.D. Shadrikov); ideas of synergetics (G.P. Bystrai, B.Z. Vulfov, I. Prigozhy, V.S. Stepin, G. Haken and others), psychological theories of personality (B.G. Ananiev, L.I. Bozhovich, B.S. Bratus, V. V. Davydov, A. N. Leontiev, S. L. Rubinstein); the concept of selecting the content of education (L.Ya. Zorina, V.V. Kraevsky, I.Ya. Lerner, M.N. Skatkin, V.S. Lednev, V.V. Serikov); theoretical research in the field of methods of teaching natural sciences (A.I. Bugaev, V.A. Izvozchikov, V.I. Danilchuk, B.D. Komissarov, etc.); ideas of a personal approach (N.A. Alekseev, E.V. Bondarevskaya, I.A. Kolesnikova, V.V. Serikov, I.S. Yakimanskaya, etc.); ideas of Russian cosmism (V.I. Vernadsky, V.S. Solovyov, N.G. Umov, K.E. Tsiolkovsky and others); provisions of modern didactics on educational technologies (N.A. Alekseev, V.P. Bespalko, A.A. Verbitsky, M.V. Klarin, V.M. Monakhov, V.T. Fomenko, etc.); modern models of pedagogical activity (V.A. Bolotov, N.V. Bordovskaya, I.A. Kolesnikova, V.A. Slastenin); ideas of co-evolutionary interaction between man and nature (S.N. Glazachev,

N.N. Moiseev, A.Ya. Nain, I.T. Frolov, Yu.V. Tchaikovsky, etc.); ideas of fundamentalization of education (O.N. Golubeva, A.D. Sukhanov).

Research methods were determined by its purpose, the solution of theoretical and practical problems, personal approach, implemented in the course of experimental work. In this regard, the following methods of the theoretical level were used: theoretical analysis of the subject and problems of research based on the study of philosophical, sociological, psychological and pedagogical literature; analysis, synthesis and generalization of empirical data, retrospective analysis of the state of science education, approaches to its humanitarization, as well as empirical level methods: study and generalization of advanced pedagogical experience, study of documentation, questioning, interviewing, sociological surveys, participant observation, conversation, mutual and self-assessment, self-reports of students, method of expert assessments and testing.

The study is based on the method of a large-scale pedagogical experiment on the development and implementation of humanitarian-oriented situations. Mathematical methods of information processing were used, while the principle of unity of quantitative and qualitative approaches was put as an integral part of the dialectical materialist methodology.

The reliability of the results of the study is due

methodological argumentation of the initial theoretical and methodological positions, including an appeal to philosophy, psychology and other related sciences, the use of a set of research methods that are adequate to the subject and tasks, a sufficient sample size in the experiment (more than 5 thousand students and more than 100 teachers of different types of schools); wide approbation and stable repeatability of results during experimental work in regions with different social infrastructure, partial

using mathematical methods of information processing in the course of the study.

The scientific novelty of the study lies in the fact that it developed and experimentally tested a new solution to the fundamental problem of the humanization of natural science education in a secondary school. For the first time in pedagogical theory and practice, the humanization of natural science education is considered as a way of organizing cognitive activity, focused on the holistic development of natural reality by the subject and his awareness of his place in the integral natural and social world. This involves the creation of a special educational environment that provides students with an understanding of the fundamental laws of nature, the formation of a value attitude towards it, the mastery of modern methods of cognition, the ideas of co-evolution of man with nature, the self-development of the personal sphere of students by enriching it with experience and collisions of natural science knowledge, as well as introducing into the methodology of cognition of new guidelines that have justified themselves in the humanitarian sphere. In contrast to the existing approaches to the humanization of natural science education - monocausal, in which one of the factors of humanization is introduced into the rank of an absolute and conditional, in which an eclectic set of facts is taken as a basis without order and direction, an analysis of the specifics and the allocation of a system-forming one, in the proposed version, the concept of humanitarization is built using the ideas of a systematic approach that focuses not only on the functioning, but also on the development of the system. The ENO humanitarization model is built as a system, the elements of which are: the integral structure of the personality; the system of educational goals within the framework of the designated approach; essential characteristic of the content of humanitarian education; humanitarian

oriented technologies for studying natural sciences; activity of the subjects of the educational process.

The structure-forming element of the content of the humanitarian

oriented ENO is a system of values ​​that reveals the ideas of co-evolution of man and nature and includes ideas about the value of knowledge of nature, awareness of the limits of one's competence and the ability to influence nature. It includes the value of knowledge of natural phenomena and the professional possession of this knowledge, the recognition of nature as a "partner" in the dialogue about the destiny of man; the value of interpersonal communication in the learning process as an imitation of the relationship of the human community to nature; experience of joint development of a position in relation to nature; self-worth of the individual as one of the products of nature and its unity with nature; the value of freedom of action and responsibility for the universe.

The humanitarization of natural science education proceeds from the unity of its procedural and content aspects, which implies the technology of introducing humanitarian components into the educational process and the creation on this basis of a humanitarianly oriented situation - a kind of educational environment. The model of this situation is presented in the work as the basis for the creation of new educational technologies for the study of natural sciences.

Within the framework of the study, a model for designing a humanitarianly oriented natural science education at various levels was developed and tested: a theoretical model, a natural science subject, and educational material.

The theoretical significance of the study lies in the fact that the concept presented in it makes a significant contribution to the further development of the ideas of the humanization of education. Disclosure and justification of the humanitarization of natural science education as a way of organizing cognitive activity focused on

holistic development of natural reality by the subject and his awareness of his place in the world, as well as identifying ways to introduce humanitarian components into the educational process, allow solving the problem of opposing the humanitarian and natural science components proper. The essential characteristics of humanitarian-oriented situations of various types developed in the dissertation, as well as specific didactic means that contribute to their creation, are essential for the theory of humanitarization of general education. The study also presents a model for building a state educational standard for science education within the framework of the humanitarian paradigm. The conclusions obtained in the study about the goals, content, means and conditions conducive to humanitarian orientation

science education contribute to the solution of one of the strategic tasks of didactics at the present stage - increasing the role and status of ENO in the general cultural and worldview development of students.

The practical significance of the study is: the system of humanization of natural science education as a set of special actions for the reconstruction of natural science materials and the design of the process of their assimilation, including methodologically sound criteria for the humanization of the content and procedural components of natural science subjects;

technological description of didactic tools that contribute to the reflexive assimilation of philosophical foundations, theories and concepts of the sciences of nature. Developed and experimentally tested in wide practice, the model of a humanitarianly oriented ENO allows rethinking the logic of building natural science disciplines, highlighting priority ideas in them. The dissertation proposes a substantiated and tested system of didactic means,

contributing to the creation of a humanitarian-oriented environment (situation) for the study of natural sciences, as well as the software and methodological support of this process. All this makes it possible to widely use the findings and recommendations for improving the ENO system and creating qualitatively new educational products (programs, educational standards, educational materials, NIT). In the course of the study, the author developed and tested on the basis of

Volgograd State Pedagogical University, the program of the special course "Computer support for personality-oriented educational technologies" (volume 28 hours) and the manual for the special course "Humanitarianization of science education in the context of the development of computer technologies" (7, 4 pp.), reflecting the main results of the study.

Approbation of the results. The main provisions of the dissertation research were repeatedly reported and discussed by the dissertator at international, Russian and regional scientific and scientific-practical conferences in the years. Volgograd, Rostov-on-Don (1998), Karachaevsk (1997), Pyatigorsk (1998), Astrakhan (1996), Yelets (1997), Maykop (2000), Smolensk ( 1999), Tula (1997), Elista (1999, 2000) and others; annual psychological and pedagogical readings of the South of Russia and meetings of the Southern Branch of the Russian Academy of Education (1997-2000).

Didactic foundations of natural science education: humanitarian paradigm: Monograph. -Volgograd: Change, 2000. - 17.2 p.p.

Student-centered education: phenomenon, concept, technologies: Monograph. -Volgograd: Change, 2000.-8.6 p.s. (co-authored.

The implementation of the research results was carried out in the following forms:

a) the direct pedagogical activity of the dissertation student in the schools of Volgograd (No. 136, the school-laboratory at the Research Institute for Problems of Personally Oriented Education of the VSPU, the Men's Pedagogical Lyceum), in the city of Frolovo, Volgograd Region (school No. 4, a training and production plant, on the basis of which subjects were taught for students of schools No. 1, 2,3, 20 and 51), where primary versions of programs and methods were tested, various techniques and technologies for teaching educational material were worked out, lessons were conducted focused on creating conditions for the emergence of humanitarian-oriented situations, preliminary diagnostics of their pedagogical effectiveness and the level of humanitarian orientation of students;

b) consulting in experimental institutions, where pedagogical teams have adapted the technologies for creating humanitarian-oriented situations to the conditions of the school and the specifics of the region (engineering and technical school No. 33, architectural and art gymnasium No. 4, college of oil and gas, secondary school 2 R. p. Svetly Yar, gymnasium No. 8, secondary schools No. 61,37, secondary school No. 21 of Volzhsky, Volgograd region);

c) management of experimental work in institutions operating within the framework of our concept (engineering and technical lyceum No. 5, secondary school No. 17, secondary school No. 3 in Aktau, Kazakhstan);

d) implementation of the developed materials on the basis of a number of regions of Russia through the faculty of advanced training and retraining of teaching staff. The author has conducted more than 30 specialized seminars for teachers and heads of educational authorities on the use of research results in the process

teaching, guidance and control on the basis of the Faculty of Advanced Studies and the Institute for the Improvement of Teachers;

Defense provisions.

1. The humanization of natural science education in the present study is understood as a system of actions for the creation and reconstruction of educational goals, standards, programs of natural science texts and the design of the pedagogical process itself, ensuring the orientation of teaching natural science disciplines to the development of the individual, her acceptance of the value of the sciences of nature, the holistic development of natural reality , reflection of oneself as a subject of the search for one's place and meaning of existence in the natural and social world.

2. The didactic foundations of ENO in the context of the humanitarian paradigm include a system of didactic regulations that determine: goals; procedures for selecting the humanitarian-oriented content of natural science education; ways of procedural and methodological explication of this content; a criterion basis that allows assessing the compliance of the educational process with the accepted concept.

3. The era of co-evolutionary interaction between man and nature determines the need for a qualitatively new holistic perception of the relationship between nature and man. The goal of natural science education is a holistic view of the place, role and responsibility of a person for the consequences of his transformative activity on a cosmic scale - cosmogenesis, which involves the formation of a creative, rational and at the same time spiritual, highly educated person, able to navigate in

technological society and make morally sound decisions.

4. At the current stage of development, pedagogical science does not have a holistic theory of the humanization of natural science education. The essence of the problem lies in the fact that the material of the natural sciences, reflecting the dramatic history of knowledge. The power of the human mind and morality is not focused on the development of the personal-semantic sphere of students. Both in theory and in practice, the natural science and humanitarian components of education are opposed.

5. An educational program for the field of natural sciences in the context of the humanitarian paradigm is a project of educational and professional-pedagogical activities that reveals the content, its subject decomposition and the principles of assimilation of the material of natural science education. The specificity of the educational program is in its redundancy, which implies the selectivity of the content, type and form of the material, the nature of the cognitive activity of students. Offering not a step-by-step passage, but general guidelines, it makes it possible to take into account the system of life priorities, values, abilities, inclinations and plans of students in the course of the educational process. This program is multi-level.

6. The humanitarian component of the ENO content is the student's experience of comprehending the fundamental laws of nature, the value attitude towards it; orientation in the modern methodology of cognition, the ideas of co-evolution of man with nature, the transfer of the subjective-creative principles of cognition inherent in the humanities into the sphere of ENO. These include: reflection of oneself as a cognizing subject, plurality of world perception, dialogism as a style of thinking, integrity of cognition,

subjectivity of perception, plurality of truths, openness to other views, intuition, variability of perception, figurative thinking, translation from the objective language of concepts into the internal language of subject-shaped models of reality, increased attention to the value-semantic content of the knowledge received, their representation in the real life of students.

7. When building humanitarian content

ENO at the level of a general theoretical model must be based on the fact that:

a) the most important criterion for its compliance with the humanitarian paradigm is fundamentality, understood as a focus on deep, essential foundations and connections between various processes of the surrounding world;

b) the system-forming basis of the content of natural science disciplines are such values ​​as the value of knowledge of nature and the conscious limitation of one's ability to influence it; competence and professionalism in mastering modern theories and methodology of natural sciences; the value of knowing natural phenomena and recognizing it as a "partner" in socio-natural development; understanding of the general cultural significance of the achievements of the sciences of nature, their logical-mathematical, systemological and empirical apparatus of cognition; the value of the unity of people as subjects of communication with nature and the joint development of moral and legal norms of cohabitation in the human-natural environment; self-worth of the individual and its unity with nature; the value of freedom of action and responsibility for global decisions;

c) the content intended for study is systemic natural objects that reflect key problems: the role of the science under study in socio-economic life, everyday life of a person; philosophical problems generated by this science - in the first place

problems of correlation between science and morality, emotional and rational, logical and aesthetic, etc.; specific high-performance methods of natural sciences.

Designing content at the level of a natural science subject involves:

a) taking into account the principles of adequacy and homomorphism. The first one proceeds from the fact that the content should really reflect ideas about the objective picture of the world, the strategy of scientific knowledge, the specifics of rational thinking in relation to the subject. The inclusion of this or that information in the subject is considered from the standpoint of its significance for building an adequate vision of nature. The second principle suggests that the course of the subject should be a reflection of the realities of the relevant modern science. This applies both to the content and to its composition. At the same time, the subject should reflect: the unity of nature and the integrity of its description in the system of natural sciences; the relationship between objective reality as a prototype and a scientific model as a theoretical image of nature;

b) it is advisable to build the invariant part of the natural sciences around the key problems for a growing person of the diversity of the representation of the reality under study in a person’s life, the philosophical reflection of the universe;

c) the acquisition of "supersubject" personal experience is due to the actualization of personally significant conflicts of knowledge, due to which the student's personal and creative potential is activated;

d) the structure-forming basis of the content of a natural science subject is the system of value orientations indicated above. The selection of the content of humanitarian-oriented material at the level of educational material implies a focus on the subject of cognitive activity, his humanitarian by its very nature (“human”) thinking, i.e.

associated with the motive, meaning, reflection of the personal significance of the actions performed; ensuring the integrity of the content of the academic subject through the unity of the knowledge-oriented, operational-activity and personal-value components; the unity of the content and procedural components (not only the expected result of learning is projected, but also the process of achieving it, the value-semantic attitude to the studied and the forms of organization of educational work); the possibility of "own vision" of the course being studied by the teacher and students, their author's position, presentation of their personal attitude to the problem.

8. The method of procedural and methodological explication of such content is a humanitarianly oriented situation, understood by us as a pedagogical environment that provides the creation of conditions for developing a strategy for the child's behavior in relation to nature; to man himself, as part of nature to the planet as a whole. Technological support for the practical implementation of the humanitarian-oriented ENO model involves a system of developing educational situations. Situations of the first type are aimed at students' awareness of the objective value of the knowledge they receive, the assimilation of methods for cognizing natural reality, an active attitude to the material being studied, and the experience of this knowledge as a need. Situations of the second type are focused on the acquisition by students of the experience of intersubjective interaction in the process of educational activities, the awareness of the value and productivity of interpersonal communication in solving emerging problems, the transformation of the personality itself on this basis,

focusing on oneself, self-knowledge, self-esteem. Situations of the third type involve the inclusion of the student in the processes of solving problems, the responsibility for which lies entirely with the individual. They require participants to comprehend the essence of the phenomenon, the manifestation of a personal position, are aimed at self-actualization and

self-realization of the individual due to the wide variability, level and profile of the proposed tasks and activities, as well as the mandatory presentation of one's own product of activity. Situations of the fourth type suggest the possibility for students to realize their place, role and responsibility in the natural environment; carry elements of ecological prudence, expedient economic activity in relation to natural phenomena, include students in a situation of "real life substitution". They enable students to realize the value of freedom of action and promote their awareness of responsibility on the scale of humanity and the planet.

Research base. Volgograd Men's Pedagogical Lyceum; School-Laboratory at the Research Institute for Problems of Personally Oriented Education of the Volgograd Pedagogical University; secondary schools in the city of Frolovo, Volgograd region No. 1, 2, 3, 4, 20, 51; schools in Volgograd No. 136, 17, 37, 61; engineering school No. 33; architectural and art gymnasium No. 4; Engineering and Technical Lyceum No. 5; gymnasium No. 8; college of oil and gas; secondary school No. 2 r.p. Svetly Yar, secondary school No. 3, Aktau, Kazakhstan.

Research stages. In the course of the study, three main stages can be distinguished. At the first stage (1991-1994)

the state and problems of natural science education were studied, a critical analysis of philosophical, psychological, pedagogical and methodological literature on the research topic was carried out, aspects of humanitarian knowledge in the natural sciences were searched for, the main trends in the humanization of education were considered, a humanitarian strategy was developed through knowledge of the realities of nature, focused on the assertion of essential forces person. The author took part in the organization of the educational process and experimental work as a teacher,

scientific adviser and scientific supervisor of a number of schools. There was an accumulation of empirical data, theoretical understanding, and a conceptual design of the study was developed.

At the second stage (1995-1998), a large-scale experiment was carried out, generalization and systematization of the materials obtained were carried out, the essential, invariant features of didactic

humanitarian orientation of natural science disciplines; the main conceptual approaches to the construction and implementation of science education were developed, reflecting the ideas of the humanitarian paradigm.

The third stage (1999-2000) was aimed at finalizing and generalizing the concept of humanitarization of natural science education, methods for selecting the content and technologies of teaching natural science disciplines in the context of the humanitarian paradigm. The results of the study were reflected in a textbook, a collective monograph, systematized and presented in the form of a monograph, and a presentation of materials was carried out. At the same time, the obtained technologies were put into practice. This work was carried out within the framework of the program of the Research Institute for the Problems of Personally Oriented Education (supervisor, Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Education, Professor V.V. Serikov). The result of the final stage was the writing of a dissertation, summarizing many years of research.

Modern Natural Science: The Problem of the Human Dimension

Human society has entered the age of domination of electronics, informatics and computer technology, which are designed to transform industrial and agricultural production. However, the technogenic type of culture, which at first contributed to social progress, is now actively generating means of destroying civilization. This led to changes in the person himself. By the end of the 20th century, technocratic thinking and a technocratic worldview had developed, leaving an imprint on human life, manifested in the fact that pragmatism and spiritual impoverishment, the dominance of anti-scientific prejudices and the decline in the prestige of education begin to prevail in the structure of the personality. Natural science should contribute not only to the formation of knowledge about nature, technological progress, but also to form the mentality of people, a special type of thinking, worldview and views, guidelines based on universal human values ​​associated with humanitarian consciousness. Knowledge of nature as a factor in the development of the objective aspect of culture is in the modern era a necessary component of the essential forces of man (V.I. Danilchuk, V.V. Serikov, 1996).

The spontaneous call for humanization and humanitarization that has sounded recently can be explained by the fact that by the beginning of the 21st century it had already become obvious that a person develops mainly as a carrier of certain functions, information, and intellect. Researchers have already proven that in addition to the cognitive and intellectual spheres of the personality, the motivational, emotional, volitional, existential and self-regulation spheres are also the most important (O.S. Grebenyuk). However, they have not yet been properly reflected in the content of education.

There was a peculiar paradox: the progress of the natural sciences, which was conceived for the benefit of mankind and so greatly transformed man himself, the way of his thoughts and existence, in the end turned out to be, as it were, on the sidelines of human spirituality. Moreover, the development of scientific and technical progress has led to crisis phenomena in ecology, economy, social phenomena, and has also affected education. One of the ways out of the current situation is seen as humanization. And it is a consequence of the division of sciences into the humanities and the natural sciences.

At the initial stage of the scientific and technological revolution, the growth in the number of scientific and technological discoveries was seen as the benefit of mankind. Therefore, the priority of natural science knowledge in this period is understandable. C. Snow openly declares in that period about the presence of trends outlined in the works of a number of philosophers (for example, W. Dilthey) about the division of knowledge into the sciences of nature and the sciences of culture. The author himself went even further and proclaimed two cultures, arguing that "there is no ground at all for the unification of cultures" (253. p. 29). For him, the phenomenon of two cultures is the coexistence of two essentially different realities, between which there are no points of contact. Subsequent fragmentation leads to the "mosaic culture" of A. Mol (169. p. 45). The dismemberment and split of culture, the disappearance of its integrity is a phenomenon that can be explained from the point of view of socio-philosophical theory. Indeed, at a certain stage, the differentiation of sciences is justified: the presence of its object of study, specific methods and evaluation criteria contributed to the development of knowledge. Although, according to the outstanding historian of science O. Neugebauer, "the artists of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance did not consider it necessary to be proud of ignorance in science." And such well-known names as Descartes, Leibniz, Newton are associated not only with science. They viewed mathematics in a broader context; for them it was an integral part of philosophy and served as a means of knowing the world. “The period of “carefree”, in a sense, development of science has been replaced by a period of contradictory,” D.M. Gvishiani (51. p. Z). “The loss of culture of its integrity is directly associated with the crisis of humanism,” a number of philosophers believe (186. p. 39).

Already in the mid-1970s, a number of realistically thinking scientists put forward proposals for the humanization of science, for improving the ways of using it for the good, and not to the detriment of mankind. However, at that time it sounded only like a call. Today we are witnessing the birth of a new stage in the evolution of views on the place, methods of development and use of science.

“The opposition of the two sciences and the associated opposition of the two cultures has also affected the modern problems of education, among which was the problem of its humanization” (105. p. 23).

Today, unfortunately, the gap between the "two cultures" is not narrowing, which adversely affects both the development of natural and human sciences, as well as the general situation of today. Awareness of the social danger of non-ethical knowledge has become a disturbing reality. Modern history has proved that the great achievements of science can turn to the detriment of society, can be reduced to the production of barbaric means of global destruction. This reveals the fact that "knowledge in itself is not good, as it was believed since the time of Socrates" (133. p. 6). Beyond the limits of social and moral use, scientific knowledge loses its cultural and humanistic dimension and leads to the cynicism of knowledge. “Humanity, faced with the problem of ecology in our century, began to understand that from now on nature cannot be viewed only as a material and raw material for production, and the environment, i.e. utilitarian-egoistically, how production, technology and the exact sciences approach it - as an object. Nature must be restored in its violated rights: to perceive it as a value in itself and to understand it as a subject of both life and consciousness, as the Biosphere in which the Noosphere lives, to develop an ecological consciousness. And in it, the image will take equal rights with the concept, ”G.D. Gachev (50. p. 12-13). Today the task of integral, harmonious development of the spiritual and material forces of man arises. But the way b to the solution is not in differentiation, i.e. separation of natural, technical and humanitarian knowledge, as it was before, and in their unity, integration. Separating himself from the humanitarian component in natural-science knowledge, a person thereby strengthened his own problems. Modern natural science should touch upon questions not only of the natural science proper, but also of the humanities, because it illuminates the paths of man's cognition of nature, the paths of the development of science.

A feature of the current situation, which mankind has not encountered before, is in the new interaction between society and nature, which gives rise to new requirements for science and technology. We have clearly seen the limits of the traditional type of industrialization. “Now it becomes clear the limitations of anthropocentrism - the desire to measure nature by the criteria of human needs: what is good for society is good for the biosphere. The project approach to the biosphere, the attempt to “correct” nature with technology turned out to be erroneous. Extreme biocentrism did not justify itself either - alarmist calls “back to nature” are not constructive,” S.N. Glazachev (62. p. Z). Further * distribution in breadth leads to an ecological catastrophe. A new concept of scientific and technological progress is needed. Scientists believe that such a concept can be developed and disseminated only in the organic unity of natural science, technical and humanitarian knowledge (V.V. Sviridov, N.P. Tulchin). “The unity of the world also requires the unity of science, and a certain metascience will gradually arise, uniting both humanitarian and natural science knowledge, the science of how the human race can preserve itself, how to preserve and develop the amazing thing that happened in the evolution of the Universe, when it is represented by She created a unique tool for a person, with the help of which she will be able to know herself and thereby influence her further development,” N.N. Moiseev (168. p. 16). Philosophers come to the conclusion that integrative, synthetic tendencies should be taken as the basis. They already reveal themselves in numerous manifestations, their necessity is substantiated by the emerging contradictions.

One of the fundamental contradictions of the modern world is the difference between the strategy of human transformational activity and the "strategy" of ecosystem development. During the period of intensification, they proceeded from the idea of ​​man's independence from nature, the inexhaustibility of natural resources, etc. All this led to the emergence of contradictions, the resolution of which is possible provided that the phenomenon of nature is recognized as the origin of man, and the phenomenon of man as an integral part of nature, designed to reveal its essential nature. potential. The problem of harmonizing the relations "man-nature" is the problem of transforming the biosphere into the noosphere, which is ultimately formed by the conscious activity of people based on the awareness of the laws of the natural environment as a systemic whole (61. p.33).

Trends in the humanization of modern education, a plurality of approaches

The problem of humanization and humanitarization of various aspects of human society is not new. Its roots go back to antiquity. As a scientific problem, it began to form in the Middle Ages, when spontaneously arisen technical knowledge began to “bud off” (V.P. Zinchenko, E.B. Morgunov) from the entire socio-cultural basis of society. Various ideas were reflected in literature, philosophy, and art. The humanities were focused on understanding the essence, meaning and philosophy of technology (F. Bacon, L. Mumford, M. Heidegger, etc.). In the 20th century, the differentiation of natural science and humanitarian knowledge became acute and grew into a contradiction between two “types of cultures” (C. Snow, V. Dilthey), and there was also talk of “mosaic culture” (A. Mol).

In the first chapter, we reflect the prerequisites, and also show the necessity and possibility of overcoming dehumanized thinking and technocratic approaches. Humanitarianization, showing a multidimensional nature, is also a promising direction in the reorganization of the education system. The official document "Education Reform in Russia and State Policy in the Sphere of Education" contains ten main principles of the reform. The first five provide "external" in relation to the sphere of education socio-economic conditions for its development. The remaining five are “internal”, actually pedagogical conditions for the life of the education sector. Among them is the humanization of education. (38. p. 10). The document points out that the humanitarization of education is not a specifically domestic phenomenon of our day, but a phenomenon that embraces the education of the whole world. First of all, “it is aimed at turning education towards a holistic picture of the world - the world of culture, the world of man, at the humanization of knowledge, at the formation of humanitarian and systemic thinking” (ibid., p. 14).

In modern psychological and pedagogical literature, although a lot of attention is paid to the concepts of "humanization" and "humanitarianization" of education, however, they are not properly separated, the conceptual apparatus is ambiguous. The problem is that the contents of these concepts overlap. There are certain etymological and substantive grounds for this. So the word "humanism" comes from "humanus" - humane, and the word "humanitarian" - from "humanitas" - human nature, spiritual culture. The moment of similarity is obvious, however, these concepts are not identical.

In the most generalized form, the humanization of education can be defined following E.D. Dneprov as "overcoming the main vice of the old school - its impersonality, turning the school to the child, respect for his personality, dignity, trust in him, acceptance of his personal goals, requests and interests. This is the creation of the most favorable conditions for the disclosure and development of the abilities and talents of the child, for his self-determination. This is overcoming the former agelessness of education, taking into account the psychophysiological identity of various age stages, the characteristics of the social and cultural context of a child's life, the complexity and ambiguity of his inner world. Humanization is the key point of the new pedagogical thinking. It requires revision, reassessment of all components of the pedagogical process in the light of their human-forming function. It radically changes the very essence and nature of this process, placing the child at the center. The main meaning of the pedagogical process is the development of the student. The measure of this development acts as a measure of the quality of the work of the teacher, the school, and the entire education system. (E.D. Dneprov).

An analysis of recent studies and publications gives grounds to state that in the psychological and pedagogical literature the term humanization is used in three main meanings. Authors often understand the humanization of the content of education as humanization. At the same time, the aspects of humanization are very different: the creation of a new generation of textbooks and teaching aids focused on the characteristics of children, the dialogization of educational content, the teaching of this content in the form of various modern technologies, the differentiation and individualization of the process, etc. In other words, humanization is understood as approaching a person , humanization of educational material, means of its teaching and assimilation. The second approach is the designation of the liberalization and democratization of the style of pedagogical communication, when the authoritarian-command relations between the teacher and students are replaced by subject-subject relations implemented through humane forms of pedagogical interaction. A number of authors proceed from the position that the basis of humanization should be “constructive self-change of people, humanization and harmonization of the personality of each teacher and each student included in the educational process” (185. p. 146). The humanization of education is giving it more spirituality, expanding and deepening the general culture. Humanitarian, universal values ​​in our time are becoming not only relevant, but also a priority. “Any form of human activity, including educational, must not only be learned by force or spontaneously, but it must be voluntarily and freely constructed. The student should be able to rise above the space of activities available to him, choose one or another subject content, find himself in the material, build a new activity. Then she will not oppress him, and he himself will dominate her,” E.A. Kryukov (136. p. 29).

“The humanization of education is a system of measures aimed at the priority development of general cultural components in the content of education and thus at the formation of the personal maturity of students” (209. p. 107).

However, the points of view of scientists on the ratio of the categories "humanization of education" and "humanization of education" do not coincide. So, A.I. Panchenko understands humanization more broadly than humanization, including the content of the latter (190. p. 9).

I. M. Oreshnikov adheres to the same position: “The humanization of education in the broad sense includes its humanization, is based on it” (184. p. 227).

Humanitarian components of ENO, their nature and ways of inclusion in the educational process

The main goal of modern education is the formation of a personality and its preparation for effective activity in the conditions of the information society and modern technologies. This goal assumes that the graduate of the school will receive a full understanding of the world and the responsibility that falls on his shoulders in today's conditions in connection with an avalanche-like increase in information, powerful destructive equipment and the general ecological situation. The most important role in this is assigned to the natural sciences. The goal of mastering ENO should be a holistic view of the place, role and responsibility of man for cosmogenesis. In this regard, here is how we see the graduate model.

We proceed from the fact that in later life a school graduate needs: - the realization that the world is limitless and is a collection of a huge number of complex, interconnected, constantly evolving systems; -confidence in the cognizability of the natural world and the ability to do this by scientific and theoretical methods; - understanding of the infinity of knowledge; - understanding of one's place in the natural world and awareness of the possible boundaries of the impact on the world around; - knowledge of the scientific principles of cognition of natural reality; - knowledge of the foundation of scientific worldview; - possession of the methodology for solving natural science problems; - value attitude to nature; - quick adaptation for further successful functioning in the conditions of an avalanche-like increase in information; - ideas about the ideas and principles of NLP; - the ability to plan their activities, based on the achievements of science.

This can be achieved if the content of natural science education meets the requirements of today, outlined above, and also integrates natural science knowledge with the subject of knowledge - humanizing them. The problem of including the humanitarian component in the structure of didactic material (educational text, didactic manual, teacher's book, etc.) is an urgent problem. At the same time, most authors are talking about two ways of setting the humanitarian component: explicit, in which philosophical, historical, factual information is directly used in texts, and implicit, involving indirect procedural ways of influencing the value-semantic sphere of students. The authors who study this problem believe that, in accordance with the humanitarian paradigm, certain criteria methodological guidelines must be met in the process of humanitarization of education. The humanitarian component of education, regardless of in which area of ​​culture it is implemented, cannot be fully and adequately formed before the subjects of the educational process have begun to assimilate the corresponding area of ​​culture. In other words, both the goal and the content of the actual humanitarian component of education are of a procedural and even conventional nature, i.e. are born in the process of subject-object and subject-subject interaction of participants in the educational process. Humanitarian is also the actual personal experience acquired by the subject in the process of mastering this sphere of objective culture. The introduction of a humanitarian component into the content of education means the exit of the educational process from a narrow subject sphere and the spatio-temporal potential of an educational institution into the sphere of social and regional problems, the interests of the individual, his needs for philosophical and ideological self-determination and their improvement in a certain status and recognition. The introduction of a humanitarian component contributes to the emergence of a learning environment, the learning process is transformed into a kind of learning situation that is closest to the natural life of a person (vital and practical tasks, choice of strategy, cooperation, internal motivation). At the same time, a change of priorities should be the basis: an orientation not so much towards acquiring ready-made knowledge as towards one's own efforts, initiative, testing various options, and developing a subjective meaning of activity. External motivation must give way to internal.

This is facilitated by the use of methods of contextuality, paradoxicality, dialogism, didactic game, methodological analysis, scientific reflection, etc.

In the study of T.V. Barsukova (13) developed a conceptual model of biological education with humanitarian components. The proposed model is one of the possible options for using the content of humanities courses in teaching biology. It includes the following elements: new functions acquired by biological education as a result of humanization (for example, the perception

biological facts as certain values ​​through a historical situation or literary texts). The dissertation emphasizes the role in the formation of students' personal, aesthetic, moral attitude to nature. The principles of biological education built on a humanitarian basis have been developed. These include: observance of the measure of humanitarian material in biological content, its limitation to the limits of humanitarian orientation; naturalness, organic connection of biological and humanitarian content, its ability to reincarnate. The orientation of integrated links (from humanitarian subjects to biology and vice versa) was revealed, the levels of "humanitarianization" of biological content were developed: insignificant, significant, deep. The place of the humanitarian component in the general structure of the learning process is shown. At the initial stage, the humanitarian component plays the role of an emotional and psychological attitude; at advanced stages - creates an emotional background; at the final stage, through works of art, biology is brought into the sphere of life.

In his work "Methodology for the disclosure of philosophical issues in physics" G.I. Gavrina shows the relationship between the material (nature, nature) and the spiritual (thought, philosophy). Noteworthy is the systematic nature of philosophical work through implementation in lessons, seminars, and laboratory classes. Let's show an example of a seminar.

Orientation to the concept of humanization in the development of the standard and educational programs of the block of natural sciences

The standardization of education is one of the signs of the current stage of reforms. The concept of a standard comes from the English word standart, which means a sample, a measure. The main purpose of standards is the production of products with some predetermined qualities. In the Law "On Education" the state educational standard (SES) is interpreted as a standard that establishes a mandatory minimum of the content of education, the maximum amount of teaching load and requirements for the level of preparedness at the final stage of education.

Until recently, the term "educational standard" was not used in Russia, but unified state curricula and programs played its role.

Let us consider the issue of the need to introduce state standards for natural science education at the current stage, when it comes to the humanization, humanitarization and democratization of education, when it became possible to work with alternative programs and textbooks, use copyrighted programs, etc. Let's see what we have today.

For Russia, the problems of the quality of education remain a priority for many reasons. In modern conditions, it is necessary to continue the growth of science-intensive and high-tech industries, which requires an ever higher level of training in natural disciplines in most working specialties. We are talking about the development of the Russian economy, focused on production. But what do we really have? In recent years, the domestic system of natural science education is losing ground. The standardization of the content of education is due to the need for the country to enter the system of world culture, and therefore it is necessary to take into account the trends in the development of education in other countries, which is easier to do centrally. So, in the context of the diversity of types of schools and subjects, the task of standardization becomes relevant, since it should establish a federal minimum of the content of curricula sufficient for a full-fledged education, which would resist the aspirations of subjective interpretation and at the same time provide variability in the content of education. Analysis of approaches and attempts to create educational standards in the second half of the 80s - early 90s. testifies to the desire in many countries to create an optimal standard of education. As a rule, these are clearly formulated state requirements for the content of education - a kind of set of subjects or areas of knowledge, as well as the content of the subjects themselves.

The standard of education is understood as a system of basic parameters accepted as the state norm of education, reflecting the social ideal and taking into account the possibility of a real person and the education system to achieve this ideal (V.C. Lednev, 1993). But the point of view on the state standard of V.P. Bespalko: “The standard of education should be understood as a diagnostic description of the minimum mandatory requirements for certain aspects of education or education in general, which satisfies the following conditions:

It is applicable to a well-defined pedagogically justified educational phenomenon (the quality of the individual, the content of the educational process, the quality of assimilation, etc.), which is easily distinguished from the general structure of education and has a certain integrity;

Performed in diagnostic indicators of the quality of this phenomenon, satisfying the requirement of completeness of the description of the goals of training or education;

Contains quantitative criteria for assessing the quality of the manifestation of an educational phenomenon, associated with an adequate scale for its assessment;

Focused on objective (reproducible) quality control methods for all identified indicators” (22. p. 17).

We have allowed ourselves such a lengthy quotation only to express doubts about how it is possible today to reflect the above-mentioned standardization criteria in a state of transition to a new educational paradigm. We can only talk about some prototype.

Starting to discuss the standard of natural science education within the framework of the humanitarian paradigm, it is advisable to clarify the problems that it should solve, its functions. According to B.L. Wulfson “standards contribute to the consolidation of the country's population, form a sense of community, awareness of spiritual and cultural identity, and finally, strengthen the integrity of the state” (47. p. 136). The standard is a tool for managing the quality of education. By fixing a certain required volume of the content of education and setting the lower limit of its level, the educational standard thereby guarantees a certain level of quality in the training of graduates.

Performing the function of social regulation, the educational standard includes components related to the organization of education, determines how education satisfies the current tasks of the development of society as a whole and the individual in particular. In the period of active search for new models and ways of education, standards play a stabilizing role. Another function of the educational standard is to create conditions for the free functioning of education, and therefore there must be an interconnection and continuity of standards across the levels of education, docking in border areas. The latter is very important for our further reasoning.

The state educational standard acts as a regulatory tool, but does not use strict procedures for the transition from general requirements to specific forms. Which is very significant in the approach we are discussing. The standard assumes a variety of conditions, forms, content, and therefore we can talk about typical, recommended, but not strictly mandatory organizational and methodological and procedural aspects. Another function of standardization is related to the humanization of education. The definition of minimum requirements opens up opportunities for further differentiation, mastery of the material at any level. This approach will allow to remove emotional stress, overload of students, take into account their needs and inclinations. Standardization in no way means bringing the individual under any standard. On the contrary, its task is to stimulate the development of the individual, non-standard, original approaches to solving various kinds of problems.

The state educational standard also performs the function of management, since it is associated with the possibility of reorganizing the existing system of control and quality assessment of learning outcomes, which eliminates spontaneity and subjectivity in assessing the quality of schoolchildren's education.

The standard should be guided by the trends of modern education, i.e. have a predictive function. One of the most important trends of today is the humanization of the educational process. And if so, then probably already today there is a need to try to present some guidelines in the development of the state standard, based on the concept of the humanization of education.

Under the direction of B.C. Ledneva (1993) substantiated the main principles for the development of the state educational standard: -analysis of the state of the socio-cultural environment and taking into account the educational needs and opportunities of stakeholders; - minimizing the complexity of standardization objects (educational content units, etc.) while maintaining their integrity, consistency and functional completeness in terms of the goals of education; -consistency and continuity of education standards for its levels and areas; - the dynamism of the educational standard, the possibility of its improvement; - the possibility of high-tech instrumental verification of the standard of education.

Natural science education of junior schoolchildren in the light of the requirements of the Federal State Educational Standard.

In order for children, sitting in the classroom, to learn and master new knowledge and skills in the form of a full-fledged activity, it must be properly organized.

The science education of junior schoolchildren in Russia is undergoing a significant renewal. This is due, first of all, to a clear awareness of the high developmental and educational significance of this sphere of education, its special contribution to the formation of the foundations of a modern, environmentally oriented worldview of schoolchildren. At the same time, the integration of natural science and general knowledge takes place in order to form in children a more generalized, holistic view of the world around them and the place of a person in it.

Primary school lays the foundations for the natural science literacy of the child. Elements of knowledge about animate and inanimate nature, natural phenomena are included in the integrated course and form the "Nature" block. This block includes elementary ideas and concepts from physics, chemistry, biology, geography and ecology.

A distinctive feature of science education in elementary school is the variability of programs. Depending on the profile of the school, the level of preparation of students, the study of natural science can be structured in different ways.

An educational standard has been developed to determine the mandatory minimum of knowledge in natural science. Education in any general education program, which is compiled on the basis of an educational standard, provides students with the necessary compulsory natural science training. All programs are focused on ensuring that by the end of primary school education there is a single level of minimum sufficient requirements for the preparation of students in the natural sciences.

Educational standard requirements:

In addition to knowledge, students must also master certain skills:

Distinguish between objects of nature and objects created by human hands, objects of living and inanimate nature, describe these objects;

Distinguish the main groups of plants and animals, recognize plants and animals from various natural communities, identify agricultural plants and animals of the region, take care of indoor plants;

Conduct independent observations in nature, perform simple experiments, use the simplest laboratory equipment;

Navigate the terrain, determine the sides of the horizon using a compass, the sun and other signs, determine the sides of the horizon on a globe and geographical maps, read a plan and a map, find geographical objects on maps;

Know and distinguish the main minerals of the native land;

Follow the rules of personal hygiene, safe behavior at home, provide the simplest assistance;

Explain the relationship in nature, follow the rules of behavior in it, do all possible work to protect nature and the environment.

Subject results of mastering the main educational program of primary general education in social science and natural science, taking into account the specifics of the content of subject areas that include specific academic subjects, should reflect:

1. understanding of the special role of Russia in world history, fostering a sense of pride in national achievements, discoveries, victories;
2. the formation of a respectful attitude towards Russia, the native land, one's family, history, culture, nature of our country, its modern life;
3. awareness of the integrity of the surrounding world, mastering the basics of environmental literacy, the elementary rules of moral behavior in the world of nature and people, the norms of health-saving behavior in the natural and social environment;
4. mastering available ways of studying nature and society (observation, recording, measurement, experience, comparison, classification, etc., with obtaining information from family archives, from people around, in an open information space);
5. development of skills to establish and identify cause-and-effect relationships in the surrounding world.

The specificity of the subject "The World around" is that it, having a pronounced integrative character, combines natural science, social science, historical knowledge in equal measure and gives the student the material of the natural and social sciences and humanities necessary for a holistic and systematic vision of the world in its most important relationships.

The main goals of studying the surrounding world are:

Formation of a holistic picture of the world and awareness of a person's place in it;

The upbringing of a person is a citizen.

The main objectives of the subject "World around":

1. the formation of subject and universal methods of action (UUD), providing the opportunity to continue education in the main school;
2. - development of the ability to learn - the ability to self-organize in order to solve educational problems
3. - creation of psychological and pedagogical conditions for individual developmentin the spheres of emotional, cognitive, in the sphere of self-regulation.

Using the knowledge accumulated by the natural and social sciences and the humanities to comprehend the child's personal experience, the course introduces a value scale into the process of comprehending the world, without which it is impossible to form positive goals for the younger generation. The subject "The World around" helps the student in the formation of personal perception, emotional, evaluative attitude to the world of nature and culture in their unity, prepares a generation of morally and spiritually mature, active, competent citizens, focused both on personal well-being and on the creative arrangement of their native country and planet earth.

The significance of the course "The World Around" lies in the fact that in the course of studying it, schoolchildren master the basics of practice-oriented knowledge about man, nature and society, learn to comprehend causal relationships in the world around them, including on the diverse material of nature and culture of their native land .

The developers of the standard believe that it is important for a child to be able to use practical methods of obtaining information:

- Find information in the course of a conversation with parents, with older relatives, with local residents, in dictionaries, reference books, the Internet, etc.

- Prepare short messages about the sights of one (or even more) of the cities of Russia based on additional information.

The main content has not undergone any special changes, these are the sections: "Nature and Man", "Man and Society", but they have made changes: some sections have been added and the topics have been expanded. Italics highlighted topics that are supposed to be given for informational purposes only, not for mandatory and detailed study.

New:

Stars and planets. The sun is the closest star to us, a source of light and heat for all life on Earth. The inner world of man: a general idea of ​​human properties and qualities. Family household. Pedigree. Mass media: radio,

TV, press, Internet. Acquaintance with 3-4 (several) countries (optional): name, location on the political map, capital, main attractions.

Study of the native land, city.The peoples inhabiting Russia, their customs, characteristic features of life (optional). Names of different peoples living in the area, their customs, characteristic features of life. Respect for one's own and other peoples. Names of different peoples living in the area, their customs, characteristic features of life.

Constitution - The Basic Law of the Russian Federation. The rights of the child.

The President of the Russian Federation is the head of state. Its functions.

To determine the level of achievement of the requirements of the standard, it is proposed to conduct an oral and written verification of knowledge, a practical test of the developed skills. For an objective assessment of knowledge, test tasks are used. The acquired knowledge and skills are necessary for younger students to further study the disciplines of the natural science cycle in the middle level.

Editor's note: This article was written by Valery Evgenievich Fradkin, Deputy Director for Science of the St. Petersburg Center for Educational Quality Assessment and Information Technology. It presents theses that are important, from the point of view of the author, for discussing the state of school education. Valery Evgenievich believes that it is impossible to change the situation with the natural sciences in the modern Russian school without considering the issues identified in the theses. Let's give him the floor.

The fact that there are a lot of problems in school science education today is recognized by almost everyone. Their presence is also evidenced by the results of the unified state exam and the significantly lower popularity of specialties related to physics, chemistry, biology (not counting medicine) when school graduates choose priority professions. Many of these problems did not appear today, but were “inherited” from the school of the 70s and 80s. Many problems concern not only the Russian school and are typical for the education of most countries.

From my point of view, all the problems of school science education can be divided into four large groups:

• problems of society;
• problems of the state;
• problems of didactics and methodology;
• school and teacher problems.

Let's try to identify these problems and, if possible, indicate if not ways to resolve them, then directions for discussion.

Society problems

This group of problems is largely characteristic of school education in most countries.

First of all, today society as a whole natural science knowledge is not recognized as a value. With increased attention to universal, humanitarian values, natural science knowledge for some reason began to be opposed to them. Morality and spirituality have become associated exclusively with humanitarian issues, and more recently with religion. The issues of nuclear energy, ecology, global warming and the moral responsibility of scientists, actively discussed by society (mainly at an amateurish level), provoked, among other things, a negative image of the natural sciences.

Over the years there has been an increase polarization of society into "techies" and "humanitarians". The speed of this process has been increasing recently due to the active position of various kinds of astrologers, sorcerers, psychics and their constant support by means of television and in the press.

In the famous book of the outstanding American physicist Glashow, The Charm of Physics, there are curious observations on the process of polarization of student society in American universities, which gradually leads to the isolation of "humanities" who are unable to speak the language of "techies". At the same time, "techies" can quite easily discuss humanitarian problems, and at a fairly high level.

Thus, another problem arises: problem of language communication. It leads to the fact that at a certain stage a significant part of the population ceases to understand natural science problems, since they do not speak the language of these sciences even at an amateurish level. This, in turn, leads to lack of critical thinking in matters related to the natural sciences, does not allow assessing the degree of reliability of information and further increases the polarization of society.

However, representatives of the natural and technical sciences themselves are not always ready to speak about the essence of their activities in a language understandable to a wide range of people. The long tradition of popularization of natural sciences, presentations by prominent scientists to students and teachers, and guidance of students' scientific work has largely been lost.

State problems

Largely due to the fragmentation of society and the state is not ready to clearly formulate its educational policy, the goals of education in general and natural science in particular. The recently adopted federal state educational standards and the forthcoming Law "On Education" are the subject of a compromise and, accordingly, suffer from verbosity and the presence of very general, vague wording. Management decisions are based not on the goals of education, not on pedagogical ideas, but on momentary economic and political tasks.

On the one hand, the state declares the need to develop serious fundamental research, the priority of high technologies, which requires high-quality training of schoolchildren in these areas. On the other hand, the Federal State Educational Standard of secondary education assumes that physics, chemistry and biology are optional subjects, which means that most Russian schoolchildren will study these sciences at an introductory level, which does not involve studying these disciplines when receiving higher education.

The integrated subject “natural science” proposed by the Federal State Educational Standard does not solve the problem of natural science training. Its study is, in principle, possible at two levels: the level of “stories about the natural sciences” (i.e., purely introductory, entertaining, playful) or the level that requires a serious, philosophical, if you like, understanding of the picture of the world, to which neither students nor teachers not ready, because it requires deep knowledge of the fundamentals of science.

The state is not ready to meet the requirements put forward by it in the Federal State Educational Standards to ensure the learning process, since the budget cannot withstand the costs of the necessary high-quality equipment. As a result, the equipment purchased through competitions or auctions does not make it possible to make the process of teaching physics, chemistry and biology modern, and does not allow high-quality project activities for schoolchildren.

Separately, it should be noted the problems of the school textbook. Today, the content of education, exemplary programs in subjects are not included in the federal standard. This means that, as before, we will have textbooks on the federal list that only formally meet the requirements of the standard.

The task of communication between the courses of physics and mathematics, physics and chemistry fell entirely on the shoulders of teachers. It is impossible to solve this problem due to the inconsistency of the conceptual apparatus, the levels of presentation of the material, the lack of coordination of the time and volume of studying the material between different educational and methodological complexes.

This is not only a didactic, methodological problem, but also a state problem, since today there is no political will to form a state order for teaching materials that corresponds to the Federal State Educational Standard. There can be several such teaching materials, they must present material at different levels of study, but they must have the properties of temporal and interdisciplinary coordination.

I will not comment on the problem of reforming the education management system. However, it is clear that the management system has not changed during the modernization of education, which means that it is unable to solve the problems of modernization. This also includes the issues of evaluating the results of a teacher's work: it is impossible to evaluate this work by absolutely the same indicators for teachers of physics, for example, and teachers of history.

And, finally, among this group of problems, I would like to note that the state is not ready to stimulate the participation of society and business in the development of school education, including science education. The lack of mechanisms such as tax incentives, for example, for businesses involved in the work of the school, encouragement of charity, etc. leads to paradoxical situations when devices, manuals, etc., made in Russia, cannot compete with foreign analogues in quality, but at the same time they are significantly higher in price. Business structures are interested only in the sale of their products, but not in its quality.

Problems of didactics and methodology

The crisis of didactics is recognized by almost all experts. To date, there is no didactic system that allows organizing the educational process in an open information environment that helps pedagogically expediently include a teacher and a student in this environment. But even within the framework of more or less traditional didactics and subject teaching methods, full-fledged methodological systems have not been developed that allow the teacher to include information and interactive technologies in the learning process.

The constant demand from the teacher for innovation leads to the fact that the teacher is forced to introduce these innovations without proper justification, without thinking about whether these innovations give a new educational result, whether they allow you to get a quality process and learning outcome.

It has already been said about the inconsistency of teaching materials both within one subject and between academic subjects. Today, various methodological schools are not ready for joint work and coordination of positions.

Publishers see only business in working with textbooks and methodological literature, so the process of preparing the teaching materials, editing and testing it becomes extremely unprofitable. And this is extremely bad for the quality of educational and methodological literature.

In physics and chemistry, even at the school level, it is impossible to reach the level of understanding if all the material is not understood, i.e. if it has not been systematically studied. Today, teachers of these subjects, due to various circumstances, including those mentioned above, do not work according to the program they have chosen, the TMC, but according to the “textbook in their head” (in the words of G.N. Stepanova).

This leads to methodological errors, since not all teachers can methodically correctly explain what and how they do, argue the choice of tasks, the allocation of time. And not everyone thinks about methodological issues. The practical part of natural science courses, which includes not only laboratory and practical work, but also problem solving, suffers especially.

It is impossible not to note the issues of the formation of the curriculum. Numerous studies show that the peak of students' interest in the natural sciences is observed at 10-12 years old. It is clear that if this interest is not supported in time, it will inevitably fade away. This is exactly what happens in our school: the study of physics begins in the 7th grade (13 years old), chemistry - in the 8th. Propaedeutic courses in elementary school and grades 5-6 are purely descriptive. They do not allow students to master the methods of scientific knowledge, the methods of measurement needed in the future. When studying physics, the lack of time makes it immediately, to the detriment of understanding the physical meaning, to bring down on students the use of mathematics, which they do not know confidently enough.

School and teacher problems

The problems of the state, society and didactics naturally flow into the problems of the school and the teacher. I will stop at just one.

Natural-science education requires significantly higher material costs compared to humanitarian education. Therefore, it is often unprofitable for the founder to form such a system of educational institutions in which natural science institutions occupy a significant place.

The high demand by today's parents for such subjects as social studies and foreign languages ​​leads to an increase in the number of gymnasiums and schools with in-depth study of a foreign language, as opposed to lyceums and schools with an in-depth study of physics, chemistry, biology, and mathematics. The number of hours devoted to the study of natural sciences and mathematics is also decreasing.

A good teacher is interested in the quality of his work, which is impossible without logistical support. He is also interested in the fact that his qualifications as a subject teacher are at least preserved, and therefore, in working with specialized classes. He is also interested in a good load. Therefore, in the current conditions, the number of highly professional teachers who have a high level of both the content of the subject and the teaching methods, unfortunately, is declining. Neither pedagogical universities nor universities are able to change this situation without serious government decisions.

In conclusion, I note that this material should not be taken as a statement of some "apocalyptic" state of school science education.

Along with the above problems, we also have examples of the appearance of new interesting lines of textbooks and high-quality instruments. There are good projects supported by individual business representatives.

The purpose of this material is, firstly, to draw attention to the existing serious problems, and secondly, to show that it is possible to solve these problems only through joint concerted efforts.