METHODICAL AND DIDACTIC FOUNDATIONS OF LABORATORY PRACTICUM IN CHEMISTRY DISCIPLINES

Abstract

The research presented in the paper concerns the creation of methodological and theoretical foundations for teaching chemistry at classical universities in accordance with the National Strategy for Educational Development in Ukraine until 2021. To ensure scientific and technological progress, the educational process is the most important and relevant. This process is supported by natural and mathematical disciplines, among which the chemistry is. Competencies in general chemistry and other chemical disciplines provided by the standards of higher education provide education of competitive specialists in chemistry, chemical technology, engineers and teachers. Ensuring a strategy for the development of higher education requires new ideas and approaches that can implement the most optimal technologies in educational activities. An important component of the system of training chemists and chemists-technologists is a laboratory practicum in chemical disciplines. As a result of the conducted researches, the didactic and methodical foundations of laboratory practicum for training applicants of educational programs Chemistry and Chemical technologies and engineering have been defined and offered. Assimilation of the content of the chemistry course is meaningless without a laboratory practicum, so its role in teaching chemistry at universities cannot be overestimated. A laboratory work is not only a type of training session, but also a practical method of training in which students achieve educational goals in setting and conducting research and experiments using chemical reagents, chemical utensils, chemical equipment. A laboratory work performs a general function of achieving the goals of education, which has a superdisciplinary importance in training specialists, namely the connection of theory with practice. The results of research can be useful for the development of theoretical and methodological foundations for training applicants for chemical and non-chemical educational programs of the first bachelor's degree.