Periodicity of Professional Pedagogical Education within Bachelor’s and Master’s Programmes in Natural Sciences

Abstract

Introduction Periodicity is manifested in natural environment, as well as economic and social spheres of human life. Professional pedagogical education as a social institute perfectly manifests all the modern trends of social and cultural development. Under the conditions of boosting of globalisation processes, a historically formed system of traditional professional education of teachers based on consistency of its structure and content does not comply with modern demands of a person, society and a state anymore. Modern procedures conditioned by implementation of the ideology of the Bologna process and integration of Russian higher education system into global education space are manifested in professional education of teachers. Abovementioned processes are associated with expansion of functional value and the structure of higher education of teachers, its competency orientation and level differentiation, with establishment of credit system, profilisation, application of ideas of periodicity of educational process, modular content structuring, variability, closer attention to pedagogic conditions of its organisation, feasibility. Periodic Model of Professional Pedagogical Education within Bachelor's and Master's Programmes in Natural Sciences The authors have developed and implemented a system periodic model of professional pedagogical education within bachelor's and master's programmes in natural sciences (biology, chemistry, geography, health and wellness, ecology). In the course of scientific inquiry of professional pedagogics we applied a phenomenon of macro-development as a specific stage of development of a complex system of higher pedagogic education. A separate place in its structure is occupied by natural sciences and bachelor's and master's programmes, characterised by continuity, multiple levels and periodicity, corresponding to conditions of academic mobility and networking cooperation [9]. Within present research, macro-development is aimed at grounding of system periodicity of the model of professional pedagogical education within bachelor's and master's programmes in natural sciences, determination of key qualitative and quantitative characteristics of the functional structure of the model providing its efficacy and performance. Based on the approach developed by N.M. Borgest, we have effected macrodevelopment of system periodicity model of professional pedagogical education within bachelor's and master's programmes in natural sciences in conceptual and draft form [6, p. 18]. Conceptual design of system periodicity model of professional pedagogical education within bachelor's and master's programmes in natural sciences implied development of the concept (avant-project) based on ideology of periodicity of educational process studied in details by Americans (David Kolb and his colleagues from Case Western Reserve University) and Russian scientists (Yu.K. Babanskiy, A.M. Danilov, L.Ya. Zorina, B.I. Korotaev, A.E. Maron, P.I. Pidkasistyi) [2, 7, 8, 11, 12, 13]. Periodicity is regarded by the authors as universally applicable procedural basis for multilevel continuous professional pedagogical education in the sphere of natural sciences. The model is not a static construction, it is dynamic and it allows the pedagogic process to evolve. Hence, developed model is characterised by integrity, purposefulness and functional structuredness. The state on the integrity of developed model of professional pedagogical education within bachelor's and master's programmes in natural sciences indicates its consistency determined by the laws of harmony and balance, interelement functional coordination and correlation. Integrity as a manifestation of emergence establishes fundamental irreducibility of properties of integral model to the total of properties of its elements, as well as nonderivability of the integral from the latter properties; dependence of each element, property and relations of the model on its place and functions within the integral. …