MECHANISMS SHAPING VALUE ORIENTATIONS OF MODERN HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS

Abstract

The article studies an issue of mechanisms that shape value orientations of modern high school students. First, the authors justify an idea of senior school age, recognized as the most appropriate period for shaping value orientations; they also determine the basic concepts for the paper: value orientations, shaping value orientations and mechanisms of value orientations. Further, they summarize the existing psychological and pedagogical research and come up with the main mechanisms shaping value orientations of modern high school students: identification, empathy, reflection, interiorization, exteriorization. The authors propose the following as ways to actualize the established mechanisms: enriching educational process with spiritual referents, questions for discussion and reflection, appealing instruction, tasks to discover viewpoints and attitude, moral dilemmas, role-plays, etc.