Huz K. Theoretical and Methodological Bases of Forming Secondary School Pupils' Knowledge Integrity about Nature.

This thesis investigation is the first in which the theoretical ground is given and the experimental approbation of the model of integral continuous Natural Sciences education for primary, secondary and high school was carried out; the concept of integral continuous Natural Sciences education (at secondary school - 1-12 forms) was elaborated. The methodological system and the teaching & methodological maintenance (the system of school syllabus, textbooks, manuals for teachers and pupils) were worked out and entered them into school practice for school subjects "A Man and the World", "Natural Science" in order to form knowledge integrity about nature in the learning process. The content and structure of notions "knowledge integrity about nature", "nature image", "ontodidactic core of educational branch", "kernel of Natural Sciences knowledge" were characterized. The pedagogical conditions of forming knowledge integrity about nature were generalized; the criteria, factors and levels of forming pupils' knowledge integrity were determined. The pedagogical bases of primary school and Nature Sciences teachers' training in the system of post diploma education, their preparation to the description of integrity of the educational branch content in learning process were characterized.