PROBLEMS OF SCHOOL EDUCATION IN VIKTOR FIRSOV’S SCIENTIFIC PEDAGOGICAL HERITAGE

The article gives a summary of leading ideas on which a well-known teacher of mathematics V. V. Firsov in the process of implementation of large-scale research and promotional projects in education (the last quarter of the XX century) has ordained the essential basis for reforming the school and suggested ways of its realization. It is noted that among the educational projects, which were carried out by V. V. Firsov, and the results of which in different times were reflected in the practice of the organization of schooling in Ukraine are the most significant: "The problem of applied orientation of teaching mathematics" (1973); "Basic program in mathematics" (1980); "Planning compulsory results of teaching mathematics" (1982-1985, 20,000 students); "Humanization and democratization of compulsory education on the basis of the level differentiation" (1992-2001, more than 30 thousand students from different regions of Russia). No less extensive and methodologically complex are also projects to develop educational standards for Russian school in the context of a generalized introduction of earlier results initiated by V. V. Firsov. It is shown that among V. V. Firsov's priorities as a methodologist and mathematician and methodologist (regardless of the subject matter of pedagogical research) consistent transformation of the system of evaluation of educational achievements of students, strengthening the conceptual bases of a technique of teaching of mathematics, finding productive ways of humanization of education are clearly apparent. Attention is drawn to the fact that the rapidly changing social conditions of formation of "market economy" period (since 1988) have identified the need to build a logical strategy for the reform of education, the conceptual framework of which has been identified by V. V. Firsov in a research note, the text (the reasoning) part of which was made public previously. Much more interesting are the Annex to this research note, which highlighted the strategic results of the actual problems of reforming tasks, mechanisms of implementation and measurable indicators. Firsov's vision of the identified problems and ways of their solution haven't lost their relevance in the present conditions, despite of the fact that since the emergence of "Research Note" more than 15 years have passed. It is noted that methodological integrity, common didactic, organizational and pedagogical targeting and real components of the information content, which suggests the feasibility of allocated by V. V. Firsov areas through the development of procedures for the implementation of performance measurement tools and indicators are clearly apparent in those annexes.