DEVELOPMENT OF THE VALUE ATTITUDE OF SCHOOL STUDENTS TO THE MILITARY HISTORICAL PAST

Abstract

The article reveals a problem of life meanings and ideals reflected in traditions developed in the course of the history of the Russian people. The author emphasizes the importance of the attitude to the military-historical past of Russia in the upbringing of the younger generation. The modern realities of education dictate requirements that contain the need to include both the system of absolute and national values in the educational process. The authors emphasize the idea that insufficient attention is paid to the education of students’ value attitude to the military-historical past in schools, there is a shortage of emotional and semantic experiences, the ability to develop value-semantic positions, etc. In the context of the analysis of the research problem, the authors describe a pedagogical experiment in which the content analysis method is used to help study the definition of “heroic past and present” and the “unfinished sentences” technique. The article reflects the main conclusions of the experiment. They note that most of the surveyed students began to think about moral feats and heroic deeds, and the smallest number of respondents note that, if necessary, they consider it possible to commit a heroic act. The article also indicates the introduction into practice of the educational space of the school of materials on the program “Pedagogy of spiritual and moral education”, writing essays, solving creative tasks on military-patriotic topics, etc. All the work done has found its experimental confirmation and proved its effectiveness.