INCREASING THE THEORETICAL LEVEL OF TEACHING BIOLOGY IN GENERAL SECONDARY EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS: THE STATE OF PROBLEM DEVELOPMENT IN THEORY

Abstract

In the article the state of development of problem of increase of theoretical level of studies of biology is analysed in modern pedagogical theory. It is found out, that one of the leading discipline of studies biology there is a decision of the indicated problem in Ukrainian establishments of universal middle education. Leading direction of her decision is a selection of theoretical base. The increase of theoretical level of forming of knowledge of students about wild-life is developed on the basis at modern Ukrainian school. Analytical research of the state of development of the indicated problem in a foreign and home pedagogical theory became the first stage of this process. In this process watching the tendency of the indicated process in methodologies of studies of biology of far, near abroad and Ukraine during a middle – end of ХХ – beginning of ХХІ of centuries. The lines of similarity and difference are distinguished in the decision of problem of increase of theoretical level of biological education in foreign and home pedagogical theories. The conducted analytical research revealed that the problem of raising the theoretical level of biological education in foreign and domestic pedagogical theory still remains urgent; it is more relevant for the domestic method of teaching biology than for the corresponding method of far abroad; scientists associate the increase of the theoretical level of teaching biology with the purposeful formation of theoretical biological knowledge, understanding of the leading generalizations of life science in students of general secondary education; some aspects of the process of formation of theoretical knowledge in biology are considered, in particular, the use of the structure of the theory for constructing the content of biological education and systematization of students' knowledge about living nature.