Lokshyna O. The Tendencies of School Education Content Development of the EU Countries.

From the comparative pedagogical standpoint the thesis author has studied the "content of school education" phenomenon in the EU-countries within the unity of its common characteristics. With the purpose to clear up the nature of changes taking place while its development the content of education has been considered in the context of school education genesis in the member-states against the background of modern global and regional challenges, social and economic transformations of the European societies, Brussels' political guidelines. The author has analysed the philosophical and theoretical fundamentals of content selection and structuring, singled out its development trends in the member-states within the general and tiered tendencies, revealed innovations in the assessment of its assimilation by schoolchildren. The evolution of theoretical and regulatory fundamentals of the school education content in Ukraine has been traced, its modern development tendencies have been characterised. The author has drawn conclusions about positive prospects of the content elaboration expertise of the EU-countries under the Ukrainian school modernisation conditions, substantiated recommendations for constructive application of the Community countries positive gains by education policy makers, didactics experts, methodologists, comparative educationalists, lecturers, teachers and university students of Ukraine.