VALUES OF THE XXI CENTURY: MORAL CONCEPTS IN THE NATIONAL PICTURE OF THE WORLD

Abstract

The article is devoted to understanding the moral values of modern society from the standpoint of the conceptualization of the Russian national picture of the world. The authors emphasize that moral concepts form a special group, which has an important place in the structuring of the national picture of the world. The authors note that a person’s value potential is formed throughout his life. The authors focus on a problem of value orientations of such a segment of the Russian population as the young generation, who are the future of the country. The subject of study is the moral potential of the personality of future teachers, determined on the basis of the results of a study conducted among students in the field of study “Pedagogical Education”. The purpose of the article is to identify and analyze the value orientations of students at a pedagogical university. The article uses methods of description, analysis and comparison of data identified during a survey of 2nd and 3rd year bachelors. The research materials are clearly practice-oriented in nature and can be useful in constructing educational work with students at school and university, as well as in preparing similar questionnaires.