Reflection the modern ideas about the content of general education in the school physics textbooks

Abstract

The article considers the evolution of the general education goals in particular physics education, changes through this process the understanding of the subject «Physics» content. Soviet education aimed at preparing a comprehensively harmonically developed personality through the knowledge paradigm and the content of education was fully consistent with this goal. Later it takes place a rethinking approaches of understanding the content of education and the content of a subject. At the present goals of education are represented in the form of educational results: personal, subject and metasubject, which implies a change in the content of the subject «Physics» in the direction of increasing the importance of methodological, interdisciplinary, evaluative knowledge and strengthening the procedural component. This trend reflects in the textbooks: the procedural component is expanded, there are problems and tasks that involve conducting experimental research in the classroom and at home, solving creative tasks, and completing educational projects. The article substantiates the role of the physics textbook in improving educational outcomes, provides examples of the organization of educational content in school textbooks of physics in Russia and Singapore.