ON THE ISSUE OF PERIODIZATION OF SCHOOL BIOLOGICAL EDUCATION IN UKRAINE: PAST AND PRESENT

The paper deals with educational changes in Ukraine during the XX - the beginning of the XXI century, determinis-tic socioeconomic reforms, the development of historical and pedagogical thought, general school education, the achievement of independence by the state in 1991 as a precondition for the development of school biology at the be-ginning of the XXI century. A number of approaches of scientists to the periodization of school biological education with the characteristic features of its development from the beginning of the 20th century in Ukraine as a system have been described. The absence of common agreed criteria of researchers for the duration of periods and stages of educa-tion development has been emphasized. In connection with the transformation of the strategic priorities of education at the end of the XX - the beginning of the XXI century on the knowledge and skills of the student on their personal qualities and the formation of competencies a model of school biological education of the beginning of the XXI centu-ry as a system education in the paradigmal, structural and functional aspects, has been proposed.