Application of the principle of complementarity in pedagogical activity

The article deals with complementarity - a universal cognitive strategy of pedagogy development, which ensures the systemic completeness of pedagogy as a science and an educational activity. We substantiate the importance of complementary approach in workout of an integrated system of scientific representations about educational activity. Scientific novelty of the findings presented in the work lies in productivity of complementarity idea for development of the model of lessons. Herewith the structural features of complementary systems is used as systems of complementary opposites. The invariance of the principle of complementarity is revealed in comparison with different models of fundamental pedagogical antithesis. The obtained results are applicable to adequate for modern realities update of methodological toolkit for pedagogy.