Papizhuk V. Reforming the Contents of Secondary Education in France

The thesis is devoted to the analysis of reforming the contents of secondary education in France in the first decade of the XXI century. In the thesis some socio-cultural and pedagogical conditions of reforming the contents of secondary education are determined. It is found out that the main factors of modern reforming the contents of secondary education in French high schools a re the European integration, the process of decentralization of educational system, the development of modern conceptual theories of contents of education and social order of the society. Comparing the reforms of general secondary education in France and Ukraine in the beginning of the XXI century, their common strategy is pointed out: special attention is paid to the aims and the functioning of education, increasing the role of students themselves in educational process, activating of the educational surroundings (strengthening community educational level) and academic (created by the school itself), expanding of the influence of information technologies, changing the role of teachers, increasing the role of education for all and providing equal opportunities in choosing the direction of education. In the research the progressive ideas on reforming of the contents of school education, the perspectives of their practical implementation in the process of national school education are formulared and generalized.