Modern trends in updating the content of school history education in the Republic of Kazakhstan

Abstract

Significant changes in such areas as technology, communication and science have a significant impact on the world economy, and as a result, on the knowledge and skills that students need to master in order to be successful in the 21st century. The article is devoted to the analysis of modern trends in the field of updating the content of the school historical education of the Republic of Kazakhstan. Since 2017, it is planned to start the preparation of subject teachers of grades 5 and 7 for an updated educational program. A great deal of organizational and methodological work has already been done, in particular, standard curricula for
subjects, long-term plans, draft textbooks with updated content and guidelines for them, guidelines for criterial evaluation, etc. were developed. Among the main significant changes in the study of subjects of the basic secondary school, the author points to approaches to learning (value-oriented, activity-oriented, personality-oriented and communicative), learning goals in the form of the expected result, problematic formulation of the topic in long-term plans, a spiral principle in constructing topics in Curriculum, planning of expected learning outcomes based on historical concepts, differentiation of teaching, introduction of a system of criterial evaluation. Updating the content of secondary education will reveal the contribution of the academic subject to the education of the student as a subject and his teaching and interpersonal communication. The curriculum is aimed at implementing the principle of unity of education and training, based on the interconnection and interdependence of the values of education and outcomes «on the way out» from the school with a system of learning objectives for subjects