SOLVING CONTEXTUAL PROBLEMS AS A WAY TO DEVELOPE SCIENTIFIC LITERACY IN SCHOOLCHILDREN
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Author(s): | Petunin O. V., Ryabov V. A., Semenkova T. N., |
| Number of journal: | 1(74) | Date: | March 2026 |
| Annotation: | An important outcome of the educational process in modern schools is the development of students’ scientific literacy, which we understand as a person’s ability to use the knowledge and skills acquired throughout life to solve a wide range of real-life practical problems. The purpose of article is to theoretically substantiate, develop, and test the solution of contextual problems by schoolchildren as a means of developing their scientific literacy. The development of functional literacy in Russian education began to be actively explored in the early 2000s. One of the most important types of functional literacy is scientific literacy, defined as a person’s ability to understand and apply scientific knowledge and methods to understand natural phenomena, their willingness to be interested in scientific ideas, and to actively participate in social life on issues related to the natural sciences. One way to develop scientific literacy is for schoolchildren to solve contextual problems, which examine a specific life situation related to the student’s sociocultural experience and require the mandatory use of existing subject knowledge. The article proposes algorithms for creating and solving contextual problems. The authors also present the outcomes of an educational experiment aimed at developing schoolchildren’s scientific literacy through solving contextual problems. The contextual problems proposed for schoolchildren to solve were created and compiled by the authors. The pedagogical results obtained by students solving contextual problems are virtually identical to those measured in the development of scientific literacy, demonstrating the effectiveness of their use in the educational process. | ||
| Keywords: | functional literacy, scientific literacy, components of scientific literacy, means and methods of developing scientific literacy, contextual learning, contextual tasks, algorithm for creating contextual tasks, algorithm for solving contextual tasks, experiment on developing scientific literacy in schoolchildren, levels of scientific literacy development |
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| For citation: | Petunin O. V., Ryabov V. A., Semenkova T. N. Solving contextual problems as a way to develope scientific literacy in schoolchildren. Biznes. Obrazovanie. Pravo = Business. Education. Law. 2026;1(74):365—370. DOI: 10.25683/ VOLBI.2026.74.1498. |
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