Development of Content of General Secondary Education: Analysis of Forecast Background

Abstract

The article deals with the problem of forecasting the development of the content of general secondary education. The definition of "forecasting the development of the content of general secondary education", which is interpreted by the authors as a process of its quantitative and qualitative changes occurring under the influence of internal and external factors, provides the achievement of a qualitatively new state of its system, its compliance with social needs and personal needs of education applicants on a certain stage of social development. In the context of the study, the significance of educational and pedagogical forecasting as a powerful scientific tool for the development of the content of general secondary education has been substantiated, which makes it possible to determine and assess trends in its development, to develop and justify forecasts, to provide recommendations for the selection and design of the indicated content. The main groups of factors of the forecast background of development of general secondary education external to this object are forecasted and briefly analyzed, and prediction of the conditions and factors influencing it). It is substantiated that in the conditions of reforming general secondary education the weight of organizational-political (state educational policy), economic (labor market, information sphere development, labor migration, etc.), international factors (international educational cooperation, entering into the world and European educational space, etc.). Traditionally, the influence of scientific and technological factors, caused by scientific and technological progress (at the present stage, is the development of computer technology and information and communication technologies, etc.) remains. The authors attribute perspectives 143 of further researches with refinement of the terminology system and the substantiation of the conceptual foundations for forecasting the development of the content of general secondary education, the development of a theoretical model and technology that will ensure the implementation of this process.