PHILOSOPHICAL AND PEDAGOGICAL FUNDAMENTALS OF THE CREATION OF THE MUSEUM OF SCIENCE OF THE JUNIOR ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF UKRAINE

Abstract

The article presents the philosophical and pedagogical principles of creating a science museum for young students in the context of the development of scientific education. The global and conceptual transformations in public life over the last 20 years, which contribute to the change of approaches to the development of scientific education both in the world and in the country, are analyzed. The experience of high-tech countries of the world on the education of a new generation of researchers and a role in this process of interactive scientific spaces, possibilities of use of the potential of museums for the realization of educational and scientific programs is revealed. The peculiarities of fundamentally new approaches to the organization of museum spaces for young researchers, which form a research search approach, stimulate the creativity of gifted students in contrast to the reproductive acquisition of knowledge, are considered. The importance of new approaches and methods of museum pedagogy in modern conditions, in accordance with changes in education, psychology of modern students, the requirements of the new Ukrainian school to the level of knowledge of students and competencies of teachers. It is established that in the modern conditions of high-tech society, interactive scientific spaces should become centers of popularization of science, creative coworking spaces of communication for teachers-researchers and playgrounds-experiments for children. It is noted that the philosophical and pedagogical principles for the creation of the Museum of Science of the Academy of Sciences are increasingly relevant in the context of the development of scientific education, education of innovative, creative personality and should be based on general philosophical and cultural values.