The formation of junior pupils' world outlook while studying the integrated course «I explore the world».

Abstract

The article considers the problem of the formation of the world outlook among junior pupils in the study of an integrated course «I Explore the World». The concept of the «world outlook» is substantiated from different perspectives, types of world outlook (folk, scientific, everyday, theoretical, individual, mass) are distinguished and characterized. The basic structural elements of the outlook (views, representation, knowledge, beliefs, deeds) are substantiated.It is determined that the world outlook is a system of principles, knowledge, ideals, values, hopes, beliefs, views of the meaning and purpose of life that determine the activity of an individual or social subject and organically interwoven with their actions and norms of thinking. From another point of view it is proved that the world outlook is not only a sum of knowledge about the world, it is a synthesis of forms of knowledge and diverse feelings, values, meanings of comprehension of the human world, a personal vision of their own problems, not only the process of assimilation of the finished knowledge, experience, values, but also the perception of the world through the needs of personality development.The content of the integrated course «I Explore the World»is analyzed. The author has investigated that the purpose of the course is the personal development of junior schoolchildren on the basis of the formation of a holistic image of the world in the process of assimilating various types of social experience, which covers the system of integrated knowledge about nature and society, value orientations in various spheres of life and social practice, methods of research behavior that characterize the ability of students to solve practical problems. The main ways and conditions of the process of junior pupils’ world outlook formation are highlighted and the effectiveness of the course «I explore the world» in this process is proved.