GENDER APPROACH TO THE FORMATION OF REPRODUCTIVE CULTURE AS AN ASPECT OF MENTAL HEALTH OF STUDENTS

Abstract

The paper investigates the problem of forming the reproductive culture of students as an aspect of mental health. The authors highlight the integrating role of the gender approach, which is characterized by the transition from the (traditional) biological-evolutionary paradigm to the (humanitarian) social-constructivist one with the leading idea of gender equality. The authors present a concept of forming the reproductive culture of future teachers, high school students and adolescents of the fertile and pre-fertile period, focused on obtaining knowledge, forming a value attitude to reproductive and mental health, and skills for safe reproductive behavior (the experience of Volgograd Oblast). The developed concept contributes to the successful formation of reproductive culture as an aspect of the mental health of young people in educational organizations in Volgograd region, gradual inclusion of students as future teachers into practical activities.