INTEGRATED CLASSES AS A MEANS OF FORMING STUDENTS’ MOTIVES FOR STUDYING CHEMISTRY

Abstract

The article considers, substantiates, and experimentally tests the method of integrative classes as a means of forming students’ motives for studying chemistry, necessary to ensure the quality of chemical education. It highlights the relationship of interdisciplinary components, the integration of methods, tools, and forms, the integrity of the main and variable parts of the content of educational material in the study of chemistry. The article also substantiates the use of a set of methods: analysis of historical, psychological, pedagogical, methodical literature, synthesis, comparison, classification, systematization, and generalization of data, modelling. It carries out the analysis of the problem of integrative classes as a means of forming students’ motives for studying chemistry in the scientific literature. It reveals the content and essence of key research concepts, such as “motive”, “motivation”, “integration” on the problems of motivation for student learning and integration in the teaching of chemistry. The method of integrative classes as a means of forming students’ motives for studying chemistry consists of three main stages: motivational ‒ formation of motivation to learn, operational-cognitive ‒ stage of mastering the subject and mastering skills in connection with its content, and reflexive ‒ assessment ‒ stage of analysis, comparison of the achieved with the planned, evaluation of the work done. The article highlights the effectiveness of the results of experimental research. It proves that the activity of students depends on the interesting facts of the new material and grows after conducting integrative chemistry lessons. It establishes that the use of this technique allowed achieving positive changes in the formation of students’ motives for studying chemistry and the levels of their formation in students of the experimental group compared to those of the control one’s.
 Keywords: motive, motivation, integration, needs, integrative classes in chemistry, educational process, chemical education, means of forming students’ motives to study chemistry.