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"Philosophy of Education"

2014 year, number 3

Integration in education

M. A. Abramova
Institute of Philosophy and Law of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Nikolaeva str., 8, Novosibirsk, 630090, Russia
Keywords: integration, history of study, modernization of education, efficiency of the educational process

Abstract

The author traces the roots of justification of integration as a fundamental principle of building a modern system of education. Actualization of this approach is due to the problems of realization of innovative projects in the modernization of the Russian education system. In pedagogics, the problem of integration of disciplines has been studied by progressive teachers from the ancient times. Active introduction of the technologies of training, based on the principle of integration took place in 70-ies of XIX century. In Russian schools there began the practice of the subject (or visual) lessons representing the germ of an integrative course of world-cognition. Since the beginning of the 20th century integration is reflected in the organization of educational material on the principle of concentration. In the educational research in the late 20th century considerable attention was paid to educational and developmental value of inter-subject connections, as well as to examination of the role of integration in the construction of educational process. On the basis of the conducted research it was concluded that the effective assimilation of information is achieved only in the process of active work and construction of educational process on the basis of using inter-subject relations and integration, as to intensify the process of mastering of educational information, and promotes the overall development of the student. Therefore, the study of the educational-cognitive activity of students on the use of interdisciplinary connections, and also revealing the role of integration in the improvement of the learning process in general has acquired a special relevance. Thus, integrative approach is fundamental in the construction of training process in the framework of a specific educational institution and organization of interaction of educational institutions representing different stages of training, starting from secondary schools, additional education and up to the profile educational institutions, both in Russia and abroad. On the basis of technology of integration there develops in students the ability to integral cognition of the world, the ability to "think in terms of centuries". In the article there are considered the problems of introducing an integrative approach in the conditions of mass school and University. The author notes the reasons for the dominance of lessons only with partial application of the elements of interdisciplinary connections that leads to the formation of mosaic views about the subject. The implementation of the program for development of education in Russia requires using integration as a fundamental principle of modernization of learning technologies and establishment of cooperation between educational institutions.