Development of conceptual ideas and normative legislative support of profile education organization

Abstract

The article demonstrates the development of conceptual ideas of profile education organization in Kazakhstan at the level of general secondary education in the period 1995–2005. The article also systematizes the normative legislative support of profile education at school. Our research interest is related to the design of a 12year school model in Kazakhstan, one aspect of which is the profiling of education in 11–12 grades. High school students’ education profiling is considered as one of the aspects of the model of updated secondary school education, the building of variable education. The organization of school profile education is a matter of education organization in 10–11 grades on the principles of student-centered education, aimed at maintaining and further developing the interests and abilities of students who have completed basic education. The issues of profile education organization at the level of secondary general education have been studied in Kazakhstan since the early 90s of the XX century. In this regard, the system of organizational events outlined in the article, which ensured the introduction of profile education in the model of an 11-year school in the context of the introduction of state compulsory education standards, is relevant. The novelty and uniqueness of the presented material are connected with the position of this article author as a direct participant in the processes of theoretical and methodological understanding of updating the content of school education in Kazakhstan, the organization of legal acts regulating the work of the national school.