NATURAL SCIENCE EDUCATION IN PRIMARY SCHOOL: THE CONTEXT OF SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH

The patterning, correction and expansion of primary natural science education that is based on exhaustive research are necessary to perceive the peculiarities of natural science education of the junior pupils aged from 6 to 12. The revision of particular training issues of the junior period (content, methods and forms) is insufficient in order children should become the equal members of society, nation and the world yet in childhood. Foreign scientists carry out a number of different investigations in the field of primary natural science education. In fact, the importance of natural science education is accepted putting emphasis on primary school. In considering the place of the natural sciences in the curriculum of schools, one cannot fail to recognize their centrality in the lives and work of those of us living in the industrialized countries around the globe (Shafer, 1996). After 1950 the subsequent positions were more frequent: primary natural science education has to be a creative process, sciences teaching cannot be only nature study. Scrupulous attention is devoted to chemistry issues in primary school. It is underlined that the field should be revised more attentively as the child faces plenty of chemical substances in daily life.