Synergistic approach in training a natural science teacher at university

Abstract

The implementation of the synergetic approach as the basis of a holistic, evolutionary-synergistic worldview of students corresponds to the mission of the university in the broad theoretical training of graduates. The discovery made in synergetics on the study of universal mechanisms for the development of complex open systems of different nature and scale, their ability to self-organization, has spread in various fields of knowledge and fields of activity, including the education system. The article reveals the essence of the synergetic approach in teaching students, analyzes the development of the problem of introducing a synergetic approach in the training of future teachers, presents the experience of its synergetic approach at different levels of teacher training: cognitive, didactic, and methodical. In the article, the authors highlight the reasons for the gradual introduction of a synergetic approach to the practice of teaching, including the disciplinary structure of higher education, the insufficient introduction of the categorical apparatus of synergetics in the basic professional training of students, the underestimation of the ideological significance of synergetics for the formation of a modern scientific picture of the world, the weak development of measurement methods in the field of research of interdisciplinary integration of knowledge. Meanwhile, the mastery of synergetic ideas by teachers and the use of a synergetic approach will allow them to broadcast, transmit to new generations of students an understanding of the methodology of systemic world-view in the conditions of knowledge growth for their successful adaptation in today’s complex, unstable and dynamic world. The article reflects the experience of introducing a synergistic approach in training natural science students at three Russian universities.