FORMATION IN SENIOR SCHOOL STUDENTS OF THE IDEA ABOUT PHYSICAL PICTURE OF THE WORLD IN THE PROCESS OF LEARNING PHYSICS

Abstract

The article highlights the ways of forming the ideas of senior school students about the physical picture of the world, in particular, an in-depth study of the history of formation of physical pictures of the world, biographies and scientific heritage of physicists, creators of these pictures of the world; selection of elements available for students to study modern physical picture of the world and their introduction to the content of physics education; acquaintance with the methods of scientific knowledge in the process of learning physics, coverage of epistemological aspects of physics. Formation of students' ideas about the physical picture of the world should be based on the basic concepts formed in the process of learning physics, and targeted help provided by a teacher to students during this formation. For the teacher, one of the most important tasks of the physics course is the task of forming students' understanding of the unity of nature, forming the idea that the object of the physical picture of the world is the material world. The important role is given to the motivational aspect of forming an idea about a physical picture of the world: students must have a need for acquisition of knowledge, obtaining quality education, understanding the usefulness of physical knowledge regardless of choosing a future profession, the ability to distinguish between facts and assessments, compare assessment conclusions, formulate and justify own position. It is shown that systematic and purposeful activity of a teacher on the formation of senior school students' ideas about the physical picture of the world is most effectively carried out in general lessons, in which the teacher in the joint educational activity with the students allocates the main physical theories and ideas, laws and regularities, establishes cause and effect connections between phenomena.