Integrity of Natural Scientific Experience of the World in the Elementary School

Abstract

As a study course, «Natural science» in the elementary school is represented twice in the form of an integrative course as a system of natural sciences and a component of the “Outside world” study course. Double integrity establishes the specificity of teaching this course both in the elementary school and higher education institute. «Natural science» study course is represented by a plenty of both state and authoring programs. Such branching is generally specified by the process of education development, restructuring life in Russia and necessity of preparing people who are able to overcome a present-day stage of environmental problem development. A high degree of “Natural science” integrity makes it closer to philosophy and forces students, teachers in understanding the objective and content of the course to refer to such categories as the being and ways of its existence. Natural science is one of the main methods to experience the world. The being is an integral characteristic of the world which asserts its integrity through its existence. In accordance with high integrity of “Natural science” this work is studying the possibilities of using the laws of dialectics development, dialectic methods of experience in teaching “Natural science” and “Outside world”.