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DEVELOPMENT OF RESEARCH ACTIVITIES OF SCHOOL CHILDREN UNDER THE CONDITIONS OF AN INTEGRATED EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM
V. S. Igropulo
Here, the problem of designing new approaches to the development of research activities of schoolchildren in the integrated educational environment is presented. The principles and a set of conditions for the successful implementation of the program of interaction of general, additional and higher education in the development of research activities of schoolchildren are considered.
Key words: research activities of schoolchildren; cooperation of educational institutions; integrated system.
Modern pedagogy and modern educational physiology are intensely developing new educational technologies, built on the exploratory search of a child within the educational process. Research activities of schoolchildren are considered as an effective innovation model of the enrichment of educational content through the development of a student’s abilities for activities. The researcher’s and educators’ community, assuming responsibility for development of research activities of students, face a number of issues relating to value and sense, organization and content, and physiological bases [3].
The program for the interaction of institutions of general, additional and higher education within an integrated educational system for the development of research activities of schoolchildren, is a long-term compliance document which describes the current achievements and problems, main trends, main purposes and fields of joint activities in education, guidance and development of students, main anticipated results, and criteria for assessment thereof. The purpose of the program for interaction of institutions of general, additional and higher education is to develop a system of the continuous individual and creative development of a personality under the research and innovation system of integration of general, additional, and higher education.
The interaction of institutions of general, additional and higher education for the development of research activities has been implemented in the activities of the Little Academy of Sciences and Arts of the Palace of Children’s Activities of Stavropol. The uniqueness of the program proposed includes the development of a scientific and educational model aimed at the modernization of education based on the learning and research activities of students as an innovation form for the organization of the educational process. The features include not only the acquisition of knowledge and building of skills to apply this knowledge practically, but also the development of students’ unstinting of laws and patterns of development, building casual relations, and understanding the possibility of a multiversion solution for many tasks [1].
Schoolboys’ research activities are included in educational programs of many educational institutions of Russia. Usually, the issue is the creation by students of group or individual research projects in time off. The performance of this technology to stimulate students in both the educational process, and the
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development of creative skills of children, has been proved. However, the experience of activities of the Little Academy of Sciences and Arts provides evidence that to achieve the set objectives, it would be reasonable to include students in research activities not just within separate courses, but only provided that the corresponding transformation of the arrangement of the educational process has been conducted, and a special educational media wholly based on the research activities of students in the educational institution has been created. The main objective of the Little Academy of Sciences and Arts is to develop and test a unique educational program, where elements of the research activities of students act as the framework for the integration of basic and additional education, study and vacation periods, educational and guiding processes. For the development of such a program, elements of research activities are included in teaching all subjects, implemented under the integration of additional education, and are a framework for elective courses.
Development of education methods within the context of the personality-development paradigm of education moves toward overcoming the evidential dogmatism, including through the inclusion of methods of scientific knowledge in the technological component of education. Special attention shall be paid to the methods of education through science, developed by O. Karpov, which have considerable advantages relative to the traditional methods of education. Karpov especially emphasizes that the synchronization of education rather with the future than with the past of social nature, overcomes the dichotomy of the educational knowledge and innovation community, and absolutely actualizes the development of open generative didactics, and the reconstruction of the architecture of educational communities toward integrated educational systems [2, с. 27]. The modern concept of research education is its development within the new sociocultural conditions of W. Humboldt’s ideas, developed later by J. Habermas in the context of communicational rationality. They are not scientific research and education, but rather it is education through scientific research [4, с. 33]. The result of such education is interpreted as mastering the basic competences - cognitive, social and emotional, providing the achievement of persistently being in demand in the knowledge society. European sociological analysis has shown a great degree of matching of the competences important for searching for jobs, with competencies participating in research activities [4, с.16, 29].
A review of the accumulated experience allows us to identify a set of conditions for the successful implementation of the interaction program of the Little Academy of Sciences and Arts, the Palace of Children’s Activities of Stavropol, and higher education institutions for the development of students’ research activities:
social and psychological (development of educational institutions of additional and higher education of a favorable environment for innovation education activities; development of the motive system, and stimulation of creative initiatives; support of new initiatives of teachers, methodologists of additional education, teaching staff of a higher education);
scientific and methodological (definition of a scientifically structure of interaction programs, of the stages of development thereof, adjustment, control; building the readiness of teachers in additional education and teachers of higher education schools for mastering modern technologies of the development of
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research activities of students, combined with motivational, cognitive, behavioral and personality components unified as a whole);
organizational and managerial (development of a managerial mechanism for the implementation of the interaction program of the Little Academy of Sciences and Arts, the Palace of Children’s Activities of Stavropol, and institutions of professional education; clear distribution of rights, duties and liabilities of social partners for the purposefulness and performance of the program for interaction in the field of development of students’ research activities);
law and standard (development and approval of local regulations governing interaction of the Little Academy of Sciences and Arts, the Palace of Children’s Activities of Stavropol, and institutions of higher education in development of research activities of students’ activities);
financial conditions (provision of development of the interaction program of the Little Academy of Sciences and Arts MBOU DOD, the Palace of Children’s Activities, with required funds, equipment and materials, based on a combination of budgetary and non-budgetary allocations).
The anticipated results: (a) provision of any student with the rights and opportunities for the satisfaction of his (her) cultural and educational needs, freedom of choice of the level and quality of educational and developing and vocational activities according to his (her) value priorities; (b) the growth of personal and professional achievements of students, teachers and methodologists of additional education, and teachers of higher education institutions; (c) the development of the environment of success for each student; (d) the establishment of human relations and partnership collaboration between educational institutions of the city and regions.
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Translated from Russian by Znanije Central Translastions Bureas
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