Shkvyr O. Theoretical and Methodical Principles of Stage Preparation of the Future Primary School Teachers for Conducting Pedagogical Researches

The dissertation deals with the theoretical and methodical principles of the stage preparation of the futureprimary school teachers for conducting pedagogical researches. The conceptual bases of stage preparation of the future primary school teachers for conducting pedagogical researches based on methodological approaches and principles, and contributing to the gradual formation of the readiness of the future teacher for conducting pedagogical researches have been scientifically substantiated. Their content basis is the author’s model of the stage preparation of the future primary school teachers for conducting pedagogical researches, which is a set of interrelated components of the pedagogical process at each level of higher education and ensures the formation of students’ readiness for conducting pedagogical researches. The target, conceptual, value-motivational, content, operational-activity and productive blocks have been determined as the main ones of the model. The criterial basis of the research formed three groups of the criteria: personal-motivational, cognitive-research, activity-creative. On the basis of the developed criteria, the reproductive, constructive and creative levels of readiness of students for conducting pedagogical researches have been singled out. The scientific-methodical principles of realization of the author’s model have been reproduced within the pedagogical experiment, which confirmed the effectiveness of the author’s model. The results of the research have been introduced into the practice of higher educational institutions of Ukraine.