In our opinion, these scientific works do not fully
address the issue of educational activities of
museums in the context of science education, as
they are more concerned with general issues of
science education. considering it as a system of
innovations, the importance of interdisciplinary
pedagogical research and the general goals of
implementing the ideas of science education in
the museum space, without sufficiently outlining
practical recommendations. In our study, we will
fill this gap by analysing the different vectors of
educational activities of museums in the context
of disseminating modern scientific knowledge
and ideas of science education.
Scientific education can be identified with a
purposeful system of formation of creative
scientific thinking in the process of obtaining
subjectively and objectively new knowledge by
the methods of scientific cognition.
In particular, this concept is interpreted as:
− The highest level of professional education
(obtained in postgraduate, doctoral studies,
etc.).
− Scientific content of education (didactic
principle of scientificity).
− An innovative pedagogical paradigm for the
integration of education and science, which
seeks to bring the educational activities of
pupils as close as possible to the research
activities, to involve them in solving
educational and real scientific problems
(Hotsulyak, & Halchenko, 2016, pp. 5–11).
The latter definition is of fundamental
importance for us, because any innovative
activity in the museum environment is to some
extent always associated with the organization of
research work of pupils and students in the
process of studying a scientific phenomenon,
discussing the results of experience, analysing
the phenomenon.
The complexity of scientific education is
expressed in the cross-cutting, interdisciplinary,
and integrative nature of its content and is
implemented with an emphasis on the natural
sciences and their combination with other
academic disciplines, on the synthesis of natural,
technical, and humanitarian knowledge in the
system of formal, non-formal, and informal
education, or in conditions of their
complementary integration.
The educational process of scientific education is
associated with problematic, research, and
project-oriented teaching methods, and dynamic
curricula that are pedagogically adapted to
different age categories (Hotsulyak, &
Halchenko, 2016, pp. 5–11).
Researchers interpret scientific education as a
scientific culture of an individual, the purpose of
which is to attract the individual to the cultural
values of science; a special kind of cognitive
activity aimed at formation of the personality of
an experimenter, researcher, scientist; a
purposeful process of learning and education
based on modern achievements of science,
engineering, and technology in order to obtain
knowledge and develop skills, as well as to form
general cultural and professional competencies in
the modern information society for personal self-
realization and development of society as a
whole (Polikhun et al., 2018, p. 187).
What is the fundamental difference between
scientific knowledge and information and
general knowledge? First of all, it is the
systematization of results, structuredness and
verifiability, which determine its authenticity,
reliability, and credibility. Therefore, in the
process of learning, unverified general
knowledge is often rewritten from one
manuscript to another, leading to
misunderstanding and lack of realizing the
meaning of what the subject of teaching is, what
the expected results are, etc.
We can see a similar situation in the museum
pedagogy, because the meaning of this concept is
mostly perceived on the basis of the traditional
approach to understanding pedagogical activity
in various areas of human knowledge, based on a
knowledge-oriented educational paradigm, as
well as without taking into account the various
contexts of its application and interrelation with
related museum pedagogical concepts and
categories.
Indirect, incompletely clear and delimited
understanding of the content and nature of
museum pedagogy, which scientists, teachers,
and methodologists distinguish from the
interdisciplinary field of knowledge and
scientific discipline at the intersection of
museology, pedagogy, and psychology, to the
scheme of analysis of educational activities in the
museum, often leads to an incorrect
understanding of the very content of the
educational activities of museums, in which they
begin to include ordinary games, quizzes,
competitions in the museum that do not have
clearly defined goals and results of activities,
occur spontaneously, and do not take into