METHODOLOGICAL PRINCIPLES OF THE FUNCTIONING OF ECONOMIC EDUCATION IN THE SCHOOL OF UKRAINE

Abstract

The article reveals the actual issues related to the functioning of economic education in the school of Ukraine, as today the economy is derived from the basic subjects and studied only at the profile level.
According to the content of the curriculum on economics at the profile level, the study of the course is aimed at the formation of the outlook of a civilized man who recognizes universal values, the mastering of fundamental knowledge about the economic life of society, reflected in the main economic categories, laws, laws; promotion of skills development of rational economic behaviour
of a person as a consumer, hired employee, entrepreneur, owner of income and taxpayer, user of public goods, etc.; formation of skills of independent work in the performance of practical tasks. It helps introduction of elective courses of economic direction at the expense of variability.
The author of the article, explaining the need for economic knowledge among students, through key competencies, including entrepreneurship, offers a methodological framework for the functioning of economic education in institutions of general secondary education through the contents of the Concept of Economic Education, which is a framework document defining the main directions of the development of the school economy in the context of studying both the economic characteristics of their country and economic and social relations in the world.