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Urgency of the research. One of the reasons for the crisis of modern education is the gap between theory and practice in the education.. This situation should be changed to protect future generations of young people from degradation. In societies where education performs its functions improperly, the level of interpersonal communication culture is significantly reduced, and where culture is reduced – hostility prevails, there is no peace, justice, and sustainable development. Target setting. In modern educational discourse, modernization is considered a reasonably popular category, but its content in academic space is not identical. Some scientists mean by modernization a systematic and consistent process of updating the educational process's content, which would form a competitive specialist with an innovative style of thinking following the demands of modern society. Another cohort tends to express that the student should be placed at the center of the educational system de jure and de facto as an individual and unique personality. The task of education, in this case, is to find out and activate one’s creative potential and develop one’s civic virtues. Science education can be comprehended as a horizon of modernization steps promoting the principles of active citizenship and the ideology of peace building. Actual scientific researches and issues analysis. The phenomenon of science education is the object of research of S. Babiichuk, M. Galchenko, Y. Gotsulyak, R. Guban, S. Dovgiy, M. Dogbevia, V. Nebrat, N. Polikhun, I. Slipukhina, D. Svyrydenko, H. Khomenko, I. Chernetsky, A. Czyz, etc. S. Babiichuk considers science education as the newest pedagogical concept in the context of natural sciences. M. Halchenko and Y. Gotsulyak study the normative-legal basis of science education in Ukraine. R. Guban first looked at science education as a practice of peacebuilding. S. Dovgiy, V. Nebrat, D. Svyrydenko, and S. Babiichuk analyze science education from the standpoint of challenges to economic development and the perspective of human capital growth. N. Polikhun, I. Slipukhina, and I. Chernetsky point to the innovative nature of science education and substantiate the feasibility of its implementation in the education area of Ukraine. The research objective. The authors of this article set an ambitious goal to perform a philosophical conceptualization of the phenomenon of science education as a tool of peacebuilding. The statement of basic material. In this paper, science education is considered as a crosscutting approach, which should be implemented at every level of education (playschools, primary and secondary schools, universities, as well as in lifelong learning). This will make it possible to radically modernize outdated forms of education. Modern education should be based primarily on research because it can protect the educational process from becoming an overt or veiled indoctrination. The training of similar characters is easily exposed to various external manipulations. This approach to education is de facto “education for war” because it doesn’t contribute to the development of holistic personalities that will realize their professional and civic potential in their careers and everyday life. Science education should play a leading role in the philosophy of education for peace offering new style of communication between lecturer (teacher) and student (pupil), as well as an atypical attitude to knowledge, encouraging freedom of knowledge and creativity in the educational process. Conclusions. The concept of science education is based on the principles of research-oriented learning, an extensive system of generating and disseminating knowledge, individual trajectory of the educational process, which allows students to demonstrate such traits and skills as curiosity, initiative, the sharpness of mind, creativity, critical thinking. By making the transition from standardized knowledge to analytical, research, experimental, design, and creative activities, modern education becomes closer to real life. The students gain a strong motivation to learn about the dynamic world and realize themselves according to the ideals of peace. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
