FEATURES OF SCHOOL BIOLOGICAL EDUCATION DURING THE FORMATION OF UKRAINIAN STATEHOOD AT THE BEGINNING OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY

The period of formation of the system of school biological education in Ukraine during the imperial age, for which the struggle of various pedagogical systems was inherent; the development of school science on the basis of achieve-ments in biology as a science, the reformation of the content of school science in three directions and the improvement of the methodology of school biology have been reviewed in the paper. The ambiguity of educational changes in the pre-revolutionary period of the beginning of the 20th century has been outlined. The social and pedagogical factors of school education development after the October Revolution; the division of hours for the study of natural science from the II to IX classes of the only labor school in 1918 and 1920, and the study of subjects in the only labor school of the People's Commissariat of the Ukrainian SSR (1920) have been considered. The formation of pedagogical science in the Ukrainian SSR, educational and methodological provision of school biological education, projects of a new organiza-tion of educational process, the system of training of teaching staff in Ukraine during 1917-1920 have been character-ized.