New Perspectives in Science Education

This article presents the issues on critical thinking development and anomie overcoming as the key methodological approaches of educational strategy perspectives in modern societies. It is emphasized that,on the one hand, the reasons for the appearance, as well as the concept of educational strategy includes the scientific-practical directions of educational activites aimed at the development of students’ skils to think critically. On the other hand, it is underlined that the main risks of educational destructive practice are connected with the anomie phenomenon. In this context it is important not only to form modern educational directions, but determine common socio-psychological, ethno-affiliative and moral-ethical norms of educational activity as well. Personality anomie overcoming is discussed in the frames of the goals and strategy of educational perspectives. The importance of scientific research on the perspectives of educational strategy is emphasized as the theoretical-methodological model of constructing the educational conditions for critical thinking development. The scope of the survey is to reveal the essential interconnections of critical thinking and personality anomie overcoming as the perspective of educational activity. To achieve this scope we have conducted the survey supported by the Science Committee of the Republic of Armenia, in the frames of the research project No 21T-5A311 and applied the following methods: H. McClosky, J. Schaar Scale (1965), D. Dean Scale (1961) and R. Middleton Scale (1963), case method, historical method, statistical correlation method and sociological method of secondary data analysis. The main results of the survey show a positive correlative connection of the level of anomie overcoming  with the practice of critical thinking.