ПІДРУЧНИКИ БІОЛОГІЇ ОЧИМА ЕКСПЕРТІВ ТА СТАРШОКЛАСНИКІВ

Abstract

The article summarized the opinion of experts and high school students about current biology textbooks for high school. The current textbook seen as a multifunctional system that is focused on the inclusion of students in the educational information environment and meet the challenges of cognitive abilities of students. At the forefront new functions of the textbook appears, which is created due to the needs of social development, namely: the development of cognitive abilities of pupils; forming meaningful biological, interdisciplinary and core competencies; developing independent learning activities which is found in organization design and research activity of students. Modernization of the biology textbooks carried out in parallel with the increasing complexity of content that causes loss of accessibility and practical orientation. Presentation of educational material in textbooks is academic in nature, focusing on information and reproductive functions. Textbooks contain a sufficient number of activities, but they tend to reproductive character. The values of the productive parts of the components of learning is very low. In the context of the statement that the main function of a modern textbook is organizing productive activity and self-development of students within the academic subject, we can conclude that the authors of the biology textbooks for high school students only partially managed to combine information and training – active components. The paper presents the results of a survey of graduates of the Lyceum – the main users of the textbooks. According to the point of view senior students, modern biology textbook is understandable, accessible, interesting, informative, with the educational material presented just tight, concise; fantastically illustrated, interesting, practical tasks, clear terms and concepts; with scientific information that is useful for life.