ACTIVATION OF INTERDISCIPLINARY CONNECTIONS AS A CONDITION FOR THE FORMATION OF THE OF FUTURE PHYSICS TEACHERS’ SELF-EDUCATION COMPETENCE

The authors of the article consider the need to introduce the interconnection of the teaching of Physics and Mathematics as a topical problem related to qualitative professional training targeted to the future teachers of physics. In the conducted research the analysis and systematization of philosophical, psychological and pedagogical, scientific-methodical, educational literature and dissertation research were carried out; the experience of educational work performed by teachers of Physics and Mathematical disciplines within this problem was studied and generalized; teachers and students were interviewed in order to determine their conscious attitude to the interrelation between physics and mathematical disciplines; particular ways of improving the training on the basis of interdisciplinary methods were determined; the content of the lectures on General Physics, the section “Mechanics” as well as that one of the tasks of practical classes to by fulfilled within mathematical disciplines including interdisciplinary content of Physics were corrected to a certain extent; Technologies of the use of inextricable connections of these disciplines in the professional training targeted to the future teachers of physics, taking into account the peculiarities of the training direction, were developed and implemented. Constitutive and forming stages of experiment were conducted to verify the effectiveness of the proposed method for the implementation of interdisciplinary connections between Physics and Mathematics while mastering the section of General Physics “Mechanics”. The control tests showed that the students of the experimental group, in general, overcame difficulties using mathematical apparatus and successfully solved the tasks (91%), in contrast to the control group students (49%). Conclusions are made on the introduction of interdisciplinary connections of Physics and Mathematics in the sections of General Physics based on the proposed measures, as follows: a defining condition for the enrichment of the contents of both sciences, the formation of ideas about nature on the basis of the dialectical unity of all natural sciences.