ORGANIZATIONAL TRANSFORMATIONS OF THE ELEMENTARY EDUCATION SYSTEM IN THE FIRST DECADE OF STATE INDEPENDENCE OF UKRAINE (1991-2001)

It was argued that the following transformations took place in the organization of elementary education: transition to the four year elementary school and training of children from six years in 2001; abandoning unified education through the opening of private schools, expanding the network of author schools and educational institutions for the development of abilities and talents of junior schoolchildren, dissemination of the educational complex “kindergarten - elementary school”; increase of schools and classes with the Ukrainian language of education; creation of conditions for obtaining primary education for gifted students, children of national minorities; increase in the number of elementary school teachers with higher education; exacerbation of the problem of social protection of pupils and teachers; destruction of the educational, material and technical base of the general secondary education institutions.