Formation Of Schoolchildren Research Articles

Educational Integration in the Regional University Cluster

In the context of continuing educational modernization, the paper identifies the areas of productive interaction between subjects of general, complementary and professional education in the expanding space of university cluster. The authors show the system-forming role of a modern university in the formation and development of the information environment of educational integration. The paper also presents a long-term experience of the Association “Orenburg University (Academic) District”, which is an assignee of the Orenburg Educational District, – on the development and implementation of innovative forms and methods of regional educational cooperation, the realization of the educational potential of networking in the pedagogical support of gifted children, the information development of students’ personality, the promotion of teachers’ professional development, the formation of schoolchildren’s and students’ research culture.

Formation of Schoolchildren’s Musical Abilities: Psychological and Pedagogical Aspect

The article is devoted to the complex psychological-pedagogical problem, the formation of musical abilities of schoolchildren. Its complexity is connected with the necessity of creating effective diagnostic methods that could be used in the real educational process, the peculiarities of the formation of musicality in the conditions of collective learning, taking into account the internal and external factors influencing this process, with the unevenness of the development of individual components of musicality etc. From the problematic range of issues developed by scientists, the ones that are related to the nature of musical abilities, their structure, the essence of the very process of formation and its patterns, features of the development of musicality as children of all ages, and their belonging to different social groups are singled out. Abilities are considered as one of the basic qualities of the psyche, which are closely related to the general orientation of the individual. The article analyzes several approaches of scientists to the problem of structuring musical abilities (N. Vetlugina,V. Ostromensky, B. Teplov, etc.) and focuses on the analysis of the structure of musicality proposed by B. Teplov. Today, the overwhelming majority of scientists believe that it is this structure that most fully reflects the studied phenomenon, and the conclusions made by B. Teplov, constitute the methodological basis of the theory of musicality and give answers to the numerous questions posed by researchers and teachers-practitioners.

MOTIVATIONAL CONTENT ANALYSIS OF PRIMARY SCHOOL TEXTBOOKS ON LITERATURE IN CONTEXT OF D. MCCLELLAND’S THEORY

Introduction. The main motives of human behavior are formed at the primary school age. Several factors play a determining role in children’s development: up-bringing in the family, style of teaching at school, quality of popular literature and other sources of information, and, in particular, school textbooks. The special importance is given to the content quality of school textbooks. The influence of school textbooks is determined by the fact that school children should necessarily get familiar with the printed materials, resulting, as a consequence, in accepting the patterns of social interaction and motive-codes introduced there. Due to high constructivist potential of school textbooks, it seems necessary to carry out content analysis of textbooks’ for the purpose of identifying the influence on certain motive trends formation in schoolchildren. The aim of the publication is to present the methodology of motivational analysis of school textbooks on literature and the results of its approbation when studying the motivational content of Ukrainian textbooks for primary school. Methodology and research methods . The research methodology is based on comparative, socio-constructivist, sociocultural and system-activity approaches to implementation of educational process and preparation of didactic materials. Scientific methods involve: analysis and synthesis of the content of sociological, socio-psychological, pedagogical and methodical literature; content analysis of educational texts. Results and scientific novelty . The author’s methodology of motivational content analysis of primary school textbooks on literature developed in the context of D. McClelland’s theory is described. As the main categories of motivational content analysis of texts, the motives of behavior introduced by D. McClelland (achievements, affiliation, positive and negative power, avoidance of failure) as well as the motives of self-expression and refusal of affiliation have been used. As a result of the analysis of Ukrainian textbooks on literature for the 2nd–5th forms, it has been revealed that the affiliation motive occurred to be the dominant one, which has a positive motivational tendency. Among negative motivational tendencies have been discovered: low level of representation of motives of achievement and self-expression; a relatively high frequency of using negative motive of power (numerous examples of manipulating people for own self-affirmation, authoritarianism of literature characters, use weakness of subordinates, etc.) and the motive of failure avoidance (the person's inability/unwillingness to work hard self-removal under difficulties). It has been concluded that high level of negative motives in primary school textbooks could indirectly influence the formation of passive life attitudes of primary school children. Practical significance . The proposed author's methodology might be useful for the organization of comparative intercountry studies on identification of specific differences in training of children in different countries. The results of the research could also serve as one of the strongest justifications for the need to update and reform the system of elementary school education.

Теоретичні та прикладні аспекти формування екологічної культури школярів у процесі фізичного виховання

Оlena Andrieieva, Inna Holovach & Inna KhrypkoPurpose: scientifically substantiate and develop a program of classes using ecological tourism for primary school age children, aimed at the formation of ecological culture of schoolchildren. Material & Methods: pedagogical experiment was carried out in the form of ascertaining (191 schoolchildren: 96 boys, 95 girls) and formative (50 schoolchildren). The level of ecological culture of schoolchildren was assessed by the method of A. V. Asafova. The assessment of the level of physical health was carried out according to the method of G. L. Apanasenko. Results: model of ecological culture of schoolchildren of primary school age is theoretically grounded and developed, which includes the following components: axiological, motivational, activity, cognitive, and the basic criteria and levels of its formation in schoolchildren. The low level of ecological culture of schoolchildren is revealed. It is established that effective forms of ecological tourism are the ecological lesson, the ecological path, the ecological game, the ecological trip of the day off, the ecological excursion, the ecological camp. These funds were used to build a program of physical preparedness. Conclusion: positive influence of the developed program of ecological tourism on the indicators of physical condition, formation of ecological culture, organization of useful leisure and active recreation of children of primary school age.

Formation of Schoolchildren’s Creative Activity on the Final Stage of Solving a Mathematical Problem

The aim of the research is to study the possibilities of the final stage of working with a mathematical problem as a means of forming schoolchildren’s creative activity. The leading method of investigating this problem is to establish the correspondence between the components of the final stage of working with the mathematical problem and the procedural features of the student’s creative activity. The study resulted in defining the structure of the final stage of working with a mathematical problem, which made it possible to identify a certain set of activities that make up the ability to work with the problem on the final stage of its solution. The article establishes the relationship between actions appropriate to this stage of work with the task and signs of the student’s creative activity. It is proved that in the process of working with the problem on the final stage of its solution, students develop procedural features of creative activity. The author's method of forming students’ creative activity suggested in the article can be used by the teachers of mathematics in school practice, by the authors of methodological manuals for students and teachers, and also can be used as the basis for a special course for students of pedagogical universities.

Formation of schoolchildren’s healthy life style culture as one of key problems of modern comprehensive educational establishment

Purpose : optimization of educational-teaching process in modern comprehensive educational establishment in context of pupils’ health protection. Material: in experiment 1012 pupils (of age from 11 to 15 years old), 532 students of higher educational establishments, 176 teachers, 34 methodologists and representatives of educational establishments’ administrations participated. Results: positive influence of schoolchildren’s healthy life style on general health condition has been determined. Model of formation of adolescents’ health culture, which consists of four sub-systems: health protection technologies; health related technologies; technologies of teaching to healthy life style; formation of personalities’ qualities, facilitating health strengthening, has been offered. It has been found that the presented model orients pupils on formation of positive, firm, individual picture of health as the necessary condition of their viability. Conclusions: it has been established that formation of positive motivation for healthy life style is connected with demand in reducing of secondary education system to modern conditions of renewed content of education, forms and methods of work in comprehensive educational establishments.

Особливості формування здоров’я сучасних школярів на різних етапах навчання

У статті наведені результати комплексного профілактичного медичного огляду школярів у динаміці їх навчання з першого по одинадцятий клас. На підставі лонгітудинального дослідження ви­значено статево-вікові особливості динаміки патологічної ураженості, структури захворювань та груп здоров’я учнів на різних етапах навчання в школі. Встановлено критичні періоди та гендерні особливості формування здоров’я школярів в умовах сучасного навчального закладу.

The Role of Joint School-Labor Activity in the Formation of Schoolchildren's Psychological Readiness for Labor

Preparing the rising generation for labor is one or the most important links in the process of perfecting school education. In this connection, it is especially important to study the psychological aspects of readiness for labor. Particular questions of schoolchildren's psychological readiness for labor have been studied in works by F. I. Ivashchenko, E. A. Klimov, and T. V. Kudriavtsev [2, 3, 4], and others, but not enough has been done to study the conditions and forms of organizing labor instruction—its influence on the activation of students in labor and on the formation of their psychological readiness for labor.

PSYCHOLOGICAL AND DIDACTIC CONDITIONS OF REALIZATION OF CONTINUITY IN THE FORMATION OF SCIENTIFIC CONCEPTS OF STUDENTS

On the basis of the interrelationship of the subjects of the natural-science cycle with the educational area “Technology”, it is possible to successfully work on the formation in students of ideas about the ways of obtaining and transforming matter, energy and information; development of technological system thinking of students, focused on synthesis of various knowledge in the context of application of integration approaches, interdisciplinary understanding of problematic fundamental and applied sciences, cultivation of creative approach to solving practical problems. The main task is the formation of schoolchildren of the idea of the technological aspect of the modern picture of the world as a set of fundamental ideas, principles, concepts about the techno-sphere, socio-technological design of the environment on the basis of continuity, the essence of which is that the knowledge, skills and skills formed in the previous stages of training are preserved and used at a certain stage of training in the assimilation of new knowledge, skills, skills on the basis of mandatory consideration of the three basic levels of the systematization: the level of scientific evidence, the level of concepts, the level of scientific theories in order to relate the natural sciences and technology. It is also necessary to establish the relationship at the level of such fundamental concepts as “substance”, “energy”, “information”, “photosynthesis”.