SCIENTIFIC APPROACHES TO THE GENDER EDUCATION UNDERSTANDING

Abstract

The gradual entry of Ukraine into the European educational space has lately determined the increased interest of pedagogical science in the problems of gender culture and, in turn, in gender education in the educational sphere. Considering the importance of forming an egalitarian consciousness, nurturing a well-developed, harmonious gender-free personality that is capable of building civil society, we consider it necessary to explore scientific approaches to understanding gender education. The main theoretical and methodological approaches to gender are considered in the article. The achievements of scientists on the issue of gender education are highlighted. It is determined that scientific approaches to understanding gender education remain poorly understandable, what makes our article relevant. The essence, purpose and content of gender education through the prism of scientific approaches are revealed. Scientific approaches to the research of the gender education problem are substantiated, namely, gender, behavioral, psychoanalytic, constructivist, cognitive, concrete-historical, civilizational, socio-cultural, synergetic, competent, interdisciplinary, personal-social, gender-role and socio-dynamics approaches. Views on gender education in each of the identified scientific approaches have been clarified in the article. The approaches that are most relevant to the gender education of adolescents with intellectual disabilities are highlighted. We strongly believe that in the gender education of secondary school students with intellectual disabilities, activity, cognitive, competent, interdisciplinary and personality-social approaches are of the highest importance.