METHODOLOGICAL SUPPORT OF INNOVATIVE ACTIVITIES IN SECONDARY GENERAL EDUCATION

Abstract

The article deals with an issue of studying and enhancing educational innovations in secondary general education. Specific emphasis is placed on investigating approaches to the study of innovation processes and innovative activities in education, on criteria to classify innovations in education. The article dwells on characterizing educational innovations in the paradigms of various approaches – ‘systemic’, ‘designing’ and ‘process’ approaches, which are best in specifying conditions for implementing innovations in secondary general education. The article writers provide foundation to the choice of methodological approaches to enhancing innovations both in the educational establishment and in general secondary education. The authors present classification of educational innovations by the nature of the activities performed by the participants in innovation process in solving pedagogical and managerial problems. They also outline some prospects for researching the problem of theoretical and methodological support of innovative activities in the system of secondary general education.