FORMATION OF STUDENTS’ MORAL GUIDELINES IN LITERATURE LESSONS

Abstract

The article highlights a problem of forming of students’ steady moral guidelines in literature lessons in comprehensive and high school. The article presents results of an analysis of the experience got while the long-term teaching school graduates, Philology students, who studied literature at school, as well as the results of the analysis of the students’ oral and written responses containing some empirical material to identify their value guidelines. The analysis allows stating the reasons why the students have the contradictory moral ideas judging the actions of the heroes of classical Russian literature in the same situations. The author of the article describes some typical mistakes done while studying a literary work when the focus is made on the formation of students’ moral guidelines. Among the most often made mistakes there is the lack of the connection of a literary work with real life, a one-sided assessment of the characters’ actions, some categorical judgments while characterizing the characters, the overstating the educational component and the understating a holistic literary analysis, the absence of the comprehensible links of literature with the country history and the everyday life culture. The author of the article suggests some effective methods to eliminate contradictions while forming students’ moral guidelines in literature lessons. They are problematic issues and problematic situations, comparative analysis. The specifics of the author’s approaches may be used to correct the proposed methodology and to continue the fundamental research.