KNOWLEDGE OF NANOSCIENCE ABOUT NANOWORLD AND NANOTECHNOLOGIES IN THE CONTENT OF STEM-EDUCATION

Abstract

The article is an attempt to systematize, substantiate and determine the role and place of nanoscience knowledge about the nanoworld and nanotechnology as well as its application in the content of STEM-education. Basing on the methods of comparative, systematic and interdisciplinary analysis and empirical generalization, it is revealed that this knowledge is an important and necessary avant-garde component of innovative development of the state economy on the basis of high technology, scientific and technological progress and culture of human civilization.The place of nanotechnologies in the technological progress of human civilization is determined from the standpoint of classification of technological devices in the economy. The interrelated criterion characteristics of the content of STEM-education in Ukraine are generalized: 1) Transdisciplinarity (transdisciplinary approach) as a methodological basis for content formation; 2) Innovation, which is widely associated with the practice of attracting innovation in all spheres of society and strengthening the role of STEM education as one of the priorities of modernization of educational content and dissemination of innovative teaching methods; 3) Integration of the content of the initial components of disciplinary knowledge and skills of STEM-education as its guiding principle; 4) Technical character, which is associated with studying and mastering technical knowledge and skills, engineering (as the application of scientific achievements and invention when finding technical solutions of practical problems of mankind). It is proved that the key place of nanotechnologies in the core of the new - sixth technological paradigm in the economy and the powerful potential of their impact on socio-economic changes in the country should determine: priority in the organization and formation of topics and content of curricula and courses in the system of STEM education; wide educational popularization and study of nanotechnologies together with professional orientation on STEM-sphere of activity, high-tech branches of economy.