The content of education is a certain amount of skills, knowledge and skills in a particular discipline, which is selected from the relevant areas on the basis of the didactic principles that are available.
With the help of certain sources of information and tools (technical and visual, teaching aids), the selected information is transmitted to the students.
The components of the educational content include emotional-value relationships, abilities, skills, accumulated creative potential, and knowledge.
There are such principles by which school education is formed:
- accessibility, which is determined by the structure of curricula and plans, the way of exposing scientific knowledge in educational books, as well as the optimal number and order of introduction of terms and scientific concepts;
- compliance with the level and age capabilities of students who are offered to master this or that system of skills;
- connection with life, which is a way of checking the validity of the formed skills and studied knowledge and as a universal tool that reinforces school education with real practice;
- systematic, which involves the consideration of the formed skills and the studied knowledge in the system and the construction of all training courses as systems that are part of the general system of human culture and each other;
- historicism, which means in school courses the development of one or another branch of science, coverage of the activities of ingenious scientists in connection with the topics being studied;
- the sequence, which consists in planning the content, it develops in an ascending line, all new knowledge here is able to rely on the previous one and flow from it;
- scientific, which is manifested in accordance with the knowledge of the latest achievements of the cultural, social and scientific process proposed for teaching at school;
- humanism, which provides priority for human health, universal values and free development of the individual.
The structure of the content of education is as follows. Transferring knowledge to new situations, seeing a problem, identifying new ways to solve it, combining the latest of the elements of the known is the experience of creative activity. Emotional-value relationships are personal and communicative orientations. Skills - practical and intellectual. Knowledge is information about the world around them, they include facts, concepts and categories.
The content of education is a pedagogically and socially oriented system of knowledge, accumulated experience of emotional-value relationships, accumulated knowledge of creative activity, experience of activity.
When forming the content of education, a number of documents are used: the curriculum, curriculum , and textbook.
The curriculum is called a state document that establishes for specific schools a list of subjects studied, distributes them by year, indicates the annual and weekly amount of time that is allocated to the study of each subject. The plan according to which the school will work (the content of education) is chosen by the school council.
The curriculum is a state document that in each subject determines the content of the ZUN and the required volume, determines the content and structure of individual topics and sections, distributing them by year of study.
Comprehensive programs are aimed at creating a common personality culture, adapting it in society, creating the basis for the development and selection of professional general educational programs.
The content of education consists of programs of complete (secondary) general education, basic, primary, pre-school, they are classified as general education.