The main problem area of the article is the current issues of pedagogical science concerning training of future primary school teachers for the formation of functional literacy in pupils. The emergence of these issues is determined by globalization and integration processes in the educational system of Ukraine and in the world, social transformations that affect the content of primary education, as well as modern humanitarian, scientific and technological development. This requires each individual to show functional literacy. Based on this, there is an urgent need for fundamental changes in postclassical education, caused by modern European theories, educational models, the latest tools of professional activity of primary school teachers who are responsible for the provided educational services. These changes are necessary in the context of the recommendations provided by leading European and international educational organizations, and are confirmed by the results of international PISA research. The purpose of the research involves establishing the essence of the basic concept of “functional literacy” and its structure. The research found a link between functional literacy and soft skills. The program of the experiment provides for the diagnosis of the formation of functional literacy in future primary school teachers. Questionnaire and testing of final year students’ in specialty 013 Primary Education of Bohdan Khmelnytsky National University of Cherkasy (Ukraine) confirmed the assumption that in most students functional literacy is formed at the middle level.

The article emphasizes that among the current and promising problems of modern pedagogical science of particular importance is the need to develop ecological consciousness of future primary school teachers in the process of their training. Focusing on modern theories of primary education, philosophy of education, the authors substantiate the acute general need for fundamental changes in the ecological consciousness of future primary school teachers in postclassical education. This is due to the influence of the latest models, tools and services in the context of primary education reform. The essence and the basic contradictions proving necessity of development of ecological consciousness of the future teachers of elementary school in educational process of higher school are considered. The analysis of the concept of “ecological consciousness” is carried out, the structure of ecological consciousness of the future primary school teacher is defined. The presented results of research and experimental work with the involvement of first-third year students of the first (bachelor’s) level of higher education in specialty 013 “Primary Education” present factual data for the diagnosis of levels of development of environmental knowledge and environmental awareness. The pedagogical conditions that will promote more effective development of ecological consciousness of future primary school teachers in the process of professional training in accordance with globalization changes in the ecological sphere, integration of domestic higher education in the European educational space, social transformations on the way to scientific and technological progress are identified.

ABSTRACT. The author is undertaken attempt to characterize particularities and cognitive possibilities of diatropic approach as methodological basis of modern scientifically-pedagogical research. It is shown it essence and is revealed urgency to study the phenomena and process to pedagogical reality.Diatropic paradigm of co-ordinates, cultural and sub-cultural worlds and finally individual displays personality and its environment represents gnosiological subsoil for determination of optimum correlation of idiographу and nomotetics in scientifically-pedagogical research, statement uniqueness of each individual is not more significant, than human nature in general.We consider that diatropic and cognitive model orients the researchers of the pedagogical phenomena, processes, systems, on the search of mutually complemented tendencies of scientific cognition on eclecticism, search and establishment of original, than on providing general and universal. Diatropic approach as methodology of scientifically-pedagogical researches determines logic of search in multicultural professionally educational spacious of variety of general properties and differences in the large aggregates of objects. Such way of cognition is not eliminated by the grant of advantage the idea of variant that acquires the special actuality in the conditions of reformation of the domestic educational system.