Аңдатпа
The article compares the characteristics of changes in the teaching of school geography courses in the Republic of Kazakhstan, the similarities and differences between traditional programs and modernized programs, focusing on changes in the state of modernization in all spheres of society's life today. The direction of the chronological development process of the textbooks of the school geography courses that have switched to the updated system and changed in the new format, is provided. A comparative analysis was made between the components of the content of school geography textbooks of the new model and the features of the geography courses of the world countries. The content and structure of modern geographical education has expanded from the perspective of individual-oriented training and features of geography classes, and looking at the world from an emotional-value attitude, we can clearly see that school geography and academic geography are completely and uninterruptedly connected in the teaching of geography. In this regard, the article shows the essential importance of school geography courses in the formation of new directions and new views among students.