Development Of Spiritual And Moral Qualities In Stidents At School

Abstract

The goal of the research is to analyse the content (conditions, tools, forms, and methods) of moral education of school students and elucidate potential capabilities of national and universal human culture to promote moral education of students with respect to specific regional and social conditions of their environment through the use of local historical, literary and geographical lore. Study of school students’ personality is a necessary link in the process of moral education. Study of students’ personality during moral education is an analysis of how the acquired moral standards are manifested in students’ actions and behaviour. Standards of morality are reflected in students’ attitude towards society, homeland, parents, labour, people, and themselves, and these standards manifest themselves in such valuable qualities as patriotism, sense of community, camaraderie, humanism, dignity, a respectful attitude to labour, and others. These qualities are a union of consciousness, reason, and feelings, and they are expressed through personal beliefs, determination, perseverance in a fight against the immoral, adherence to high moral values, and ability for compassion. This paper emphasises the notion that moral orientation of personality is manifested not in single deeds but through its general activity. It is evaluated, first and foremost, through an ability of an individual to reveal his or her view of life. Successful development of moral qualities in school students depends on the competence of teachers, variety of used educational methods, and children’s emotional response.