THE DEVELOPMENT OF EMOTIONAL AND VALUE SPHERE OF YOUNGER ADOLESCENTS THROUGH SITUATIONS OF MORAL CHOICE

Abstract

The article actualizes the need to solve a problem of developing the emotional and value sphere of adolescents as a fundamental basis for the formation of personal students qualities. The essence and functions of emotions and values reflecting the personality-significant states of a teenager and determining the choice of ways of his activity in a situation of uncertainty are described. One of the ways of developing the emotional and value sphere of students is proposed by including them in the activities of designing and analyzing situations of moral choice in educational and extracurricular activities. The work reveals that the specificity of situations of moral choice lies in their pronounced orientation towards forming of a particular value, which is set by the content of the situation as a set of conditions and circumstances that determine the need for context analysis and the choice of a teenager’s own actions. The article concludes that situations of moral choice have a significant potential for the development of the emotional and value sphere of schoolchildren, therefore, the inclusion of students in the design and analysis of these situations is quite justified and promising. At the same time, it is important to ensure that situations are aimed at developing a system of basic national values, such as citizenship, patriotism, family, work, creativity, science, literature, art, nature, humanity, and social solidarity.