REFORMING THE CONTENT OF GENERAL SECONDARY EDUCATION AS THE KEY TENDENCY IN DEVELOPING UKRAINIAN SCHOOL OF THE 1960s – 1980s

Authors

  • L Pyrozhenko

Keywords:

content of the general secondary education, reforming the educational content, curriculum, syllabus, subject.

Abstract

Taking into consideration the relevant tendencies of developing school education, the theme of research has been
defined: to analyze the stages of reforming the content of general secondary education in mid-1960s–mid-1980s, to
characterize the factors, which ensured the efficacy of this complicated, multi-vectorial process. During 1964-1966
a number of governmental decrees were issued, according to which the return to the 10-year secondary education
took place and industrial training ceased being unexceptionally obligatory. The priority task was set – to renovate the
content of general secondary education in a short period of time. The governmental documents give evidence of the
gradual retreat from the practically oriented reforming and return to the previous knowledge paradigm of education,
after which the content of education is given as the system of experience of the humanity presented as the “basics of
science”, the polytechnic component being gradually formalized and removed from the general content, and acquiring
knowledge and skills becoming all-sufficient.
In the course of the stage by stage planned implementation, the new curricula and syllabi, the projects of which
had undergone the broad experimental verification and public discussion, correction and elaboration during several
years, came into school practice
Expanding the framework of hitherto single curriculum provided conditions for differentiation and
individualization of the process of instruction as well as approbation of new training courses and so on.
Summarizing the domestic experience of reforming the content of general secondary education in the period of
1964–1984 has enabled both substantiating the system approach as the key tendency of this complicated and multivectorial
process and discovering the consistency of its sequence: designing, preparing, experimental verification,
correction and implementation.

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How to Cite

Pyrozhenko, L. (2019). REFORMING THE CONTENT OF GENERAL SECONDARY EDUCATION AS THE KEY TENDENCY IN DEVELOPING UKRAINIAN SCHOOL OF THE 1960s – 1980s. Continuing Professional Education: Theory and Practice, (3-4), 109–112. Retrieved from http://npo.kubg.edu.ua/article/view/186342

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QUALITY ASSURANCE IN HIGHER EDUCATION AND ITS EXPERT SUPPORT: THE EU EXPERIENCE