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Introduction. The paper presents a study of the history of pedagogical integration and metasubject approach in education. The interrelation of academic disciplines is a complex multidimensional problem and has its own didactic laws, the research of which is carried out in the fundamental works of domestic and foreign scientists of XX-XXI centuries. The system analysis of scientific research and pedagogical experience has shown that these concepts are often synonymous, although this is not true. The contradiction between the existing practice of general education and the new metasubject requirements of state educational standards can be resolved by the creation of integrated or interdisciplinary disciplines, which will lead to the elimination of multi-subject teaching and the formation of a holistic system of general scientific knowledge in students. Methodology and methods of the research. The methodological basis of the study is the personal-activity approach to the analysis and disclosure of the pedagogical process; a systematic approach to the construction and consideration of the studied pedagogical objects; the theory of integration of the content of education in the framework of system and level construction; interdisciplinary approach, etc. The results of the research. The difference in the content of the concepts of «metasubject», «interdisciplinary», «integration» is revealed. Meta-subjects are а new educational form, built over the traditional academic subjects. They represent a new type of subjects, the basis of which is a mental activity type of combining educational material of different subjects, as well as a reflexive attitude to the basics of thinking. Integration is a universal concept, it is a general scientific, interdisciplinary level of integration which allows to structure the educational material and combine subjects into integrated subjects or metasubjects. Conclusion. Pedagogical integration is a methodological basis for the construction of interdisciplinary integrated subjects or metasubjects. Long before the introduction into the modern education system of new Federal state educational standards, which included metasubject results, namely - in the 70-90-ies of the 20th century, there were developed integrated courses, metasubject forms of education identical to modern metasubjects. But, unfortunately, as it often happens in pedagogy, something that was already discovered is rediscovered. Metasubject in the context that offers an educational standard is interdisciplinary interaction plus general educational skills. So interdisciplinarity is one of the levels of integration.