HARMONIOUS UNITY OF SPIRITUALITY, CULTURE,EDUCATION AND UPBRINGING

Abstract

The article is devoted to the investigation of the problem of harmonious unity of spirituality, culture, education, and upbringing of a personality, which are the most important categories of pedagogical science and determine the tendencies and nature of personality development. The authors of the article provide an essential characteristic of these concepts. It is emphasized that in present day conditions, the state of spirituality of society, its decline "as a social phenomenon, as a critical state for the fate of mankind", is of particular concern. Therefore, the problems of the culture and spirituality of the personality are now the subject of attention of all the humanities. The authors of the article note that a growing person is at the center of pedagogical research. It is emphasized that nowadays it is necessary to take into account its energy and information essence, and peculiarities of its soul as an organic totality of all physical, energetic, conscious and unconscious psychophysiological and spiritual forces of a person. The need to consider the concepts of spirituality, culture, education, and upbringing in the context of formation of the value and sense sphere of personality is emphasized. In the article, the author's definition of this concept is presented and the psychological determinants of the formation of the value and sense sphere of a personality are identified. They include culture as a metasystem; spirituality as a vital determinant; ideals as meaningful factors; and modern information systems, spaces and practices. In the article, the concept of cultural personality development, worked out by D. Paul Shafer, is characterized. The shortcomings of modern education are described and the tasks of the new century education are defined. It is emphasized that education should perform an important culture-creative and human-creative function that promotes the cultivation of personality spirituality. It is emphasized that upbringing of a spiritually mature personality is ensured in the educational process by the readiness to co-operate in the context of cultural pluralism.