THE FORMATION OF SPIRITUAL-AESTHETIC VALUES IN THE CLASSES ON «CONCEPTS OF MODERN NATURAL SCIENCE»

Abstract

The article highlights the problem of formation of spiritual-aesthetic values in the classroom «Concepts of modern natural science». It is noted that the aesthetic approach to the development of «Concepts of modern natural science» promotes integrity, unity and interrelation of knowledge, enhances the formation in the minds of students of an integral scientific picture of the world in which spiritual-aesthetic principles have a unifying role. Special attention is given to the determination of value orientations of students for the formation of their spiritual-aesthetic values. It is shown that value orientations correlate with the following factors of educational process: the formation of students’ knowledge of specific scientific character; orientation of perception processes towards actualization of personal meanings of learning materials improving the skills of analysis and introspection as the highest factors in the development of spiritual-aesthetic values. The article highlights the specifics of formation of spiritual-aesthetic values in the classroom. In the context of these specifics the author defines the ad hoc methods of the formation of spiritual-aesthetic values during the classes on “Concepts of modern natural sciences”: method of identifying the spiritual-aesthetic values of different stages of natural science development; method of analyzing the spiritual-aesthetic position of the scholar; method of associative correlation of spiritual-aesthetic aspects in science with the viewpoints of the student; method of comparing different sciences (chemistry, physics, biology) based on similarities and differences of spiritual-aesthetic values. It is concluded that the spiritual-aesthetic development of personality is a result of long and profound creative work enhancing the perception of beautiful in reality.