True Attitudes Research Articles

Scientific foundations of assessment of future social pedagogue�s willingness to pedagogical activity

Relevance. The relevance of the research is conditioned upon the need to assess the compliance of social pedagogues� training programmes in Kazakhstan with modern professional challenges. Purpose. This research is designed to identify the content of educational programmes and to identify the relationship between the level of training of future social pedagogues and their effectiveness in pedagogical activities. Methodology. The leading method of research on this problem was a survey and interviews. In addition, the following methods were used: system analysis, logical analysis, method of comparison, synthesis, deduction and classification. Results. The research presents the theoretical foundations that disclose the essence and significance of social pedagogy for modern society. It provides information about the training of social pedagogues in Kazakhstan and describes the most important aspects of training students in this specialty. It also reveals the specific features of social pedagogues' work in Kazakhstan, including the multicultural environment, the development of a professional network, adaptation to changing social situations, and cooperation with other professionals. Additionally, the research identifies and justifies various approaches to defining the profession. Conclusions. The research disclosed the true attitudes, opinions and experiences of students of social pedagogy, and obtained valuable feedback from experienced specialists in this field. The materials of the research can be used to improve the educational programmes of educational institutions in Kazakhstan that train specialists in the field of social pedagogy. Keywords: quality of higher education; professional competences; didactics; innovative teaching methods; education actualisation; educational programmes

Defensiveness Toward IAT Feedback Predicts Willingness to Engage in Anti-Bias Behaviors.

People who are more defensive about their feedback on the Race-Attitudes Implicit Association Test (IAT) are less willing to engage in anti-bias behaviors. Extending on this work, we statistically clarified defensiveness constructs to predict willingness to engage in anti-bias behaviors among people who received pro-White versus no-bias IAT feedback. We replicated the finding that U.S. Americans are generally defensive toward pro-White IAT feedback, and that more defensiveness predicts less willingness to engage in anti-bias behaviors. However, people who believed their pro-White IAT feedback was an inaccurate reflection of their "true attitudes" were more willing to engage in anti-bias behaviors compared with people who received no-bias IAT feedback. These results better illuminate the defensiveness construct suggesting that receiving self-threatening feedback about bias may motivate people's willingness to engage in anti-bias behaviors in different ways depending on how people respond to that feedback.

Understand consumers' true views on new energy vehicles through behavioral reasoning and brand extension fit

Due to avoid environmental pollution, promoting new energy vehicles has become a national strategic tool widely supported by national policies, and the trend of cross-border car manufacturing has aroused the attention of society, car manufacturers, and policymakers. Many previous studies have analyzed the public's acceptance of new energy vehicles. However, few studies have distinguished the true views of consumers, which involve whether consumers' attitudes and intentions toward new energy vehicles are true and whether consumers have a more aggressive risk appetite for new energy vehicles and are willing to accept new energy vehicles. To address this gap, we construct a research framework based on behavioral reasoning theory and introduce brand extension fit to assess consumers' true attitudes, intentions, and risk preferences for new energy vehicles. According to the characteristics of potential new energy vehicle consumers, we recruited 586 participants. Our research results show that, first, reasoning plays an essential role in the formation of consumers' attitudes and intentions. Consumers' attitudes toward new energy vehicles comprehensively consider “reasons for” and “reasons against”, while “reasons against” are suppressed in consumer intentions that are closer to consumer behavior. Second, the brand extension fit has a significant moderating effect on the reasoning of consumers' purchase decisions, which indicates that consumers' views on new energy vehicles are more conservative than innovative. Finally, based on our survey results, we provide valuable suggestions for policymakers and automobile manufacturers.

Gender Stereotyping Questions Accurately Measure Beliefs About the Traits and Issue Strengths of Women and Men in Politics

ABSTRACT The public often believes that men in political office are better at handling some issues or possess specific traits, compared to women. Do individuals reveal their true preferences on surveys that inquire about these political gender stereotypes? This article employs methods that allow researchers to examine true attitudes without pressuring individuals to explicitly reveal sensitive preferences. I use three experiments: a list experiment, a new group-count sensitive measure, and a question-wording experiment employed on the 2016 CES. I find little evidence of reluctance to share true attitudes about gender stereotypes across any of the measures. The results presented help confirm the importance of gender stereotypes in shaping political preferences in American politics today and undergird evidence in prior scholarship on stereotypes.

Explicit and implicit attitudes toward smoking: Dissociation of attitudes and different characteristics for an implicit attitude in smokers and nonsmokers.

Smoking is a global health risk for premature death and disease. Recently, addictive behaviors, like smoking, were considered to be guided by explicit and implicit processes. The existence of a dissociation between the two attitudes in nonsmokers and the causes of the differences in implicit attitudes toward smoking have not been fully investigated. We investigated the explicit and implicit attitudes toward smoking via a self-reported scale and the single category implicit association test (SC-IAT), respectively, among undergraduate and graduate health sciences students. In addition, we applied the drift-diffusion model (DDM) on the SC-IAT and examined the behavioral characteristics that caused differences in implicit attitude toward smoking between smokers and nonsmokers. The results showed the existence of a dissociation between explicit and implicit attitudes toward smoking among nonsmokers. In addition, nonsmokers had a higher decision threshold than smokers and a higher drift rate in the condition where negative words were associated with smoking. Nonsmokers engaged in SC-IAT with more cautious attitudes and responded more easily in a negative condition since it was consistent with their true attitudes. Conversely, smokers did not show a significant difference in the drift rate between the conditions. These results suggested that the differences in an implicit attitude between smokers and nonsmokers were caused by differences in evidence accumulation speed between the positive and negative conditions. The existence of dissociation between implicit and explicit attitudes toward smoking may indicate the difficulty of measuring true attitude in nonsmokers in a questionnaire survey. Additionally, the DDM results explained the difference of implicit attitude between smokers and nonsmokers; it may provide information on the mechanisms of addictive behaviors and a basis for therapy. However, whether these results are affected by cultural differences requires further investigation.

Current surveys may underestimate climate change skepticism evidence from list experiments in Germany and the USA.

Strong public support is a prerequisite for ambitious and thus costly climate change mitigation policy, and strong public concern over climate change is a prerequisite for policy support. Why, then, do most public opinion surveys indicate rather high levels of concern and rather strong policy support, while de facto mitigation efforts in most countries remain far from ambitious? One possibility is that survey measures for public concern fail to fully reveal the true attitudes of citizens due to social desirability bias. In this paper, we implemented list-experiments in representative surveys in Germany and the United States (N = 3620 and 3640 respectively) to assess such potential bias. We find evidence that people systematically misreport, that is, understate their disbelief in human caused climate change. This misreporting is particularly strong amongst politically relevant subgroups. Individuals in the top 20% of the income distribution in the United States and supporters of conservative parties in Germany exhibit significantly higher climate change skepticism according to the list experiment, relative to conventional measures. While this does not definitively mean that climate skepticism is a widespread phenomenon in these countries, it does suggest that future research should reconsider how climate change concern is measured, and what subgroups of the population are more susceptible to misreporting and why. Our findings imply that public support for ambitious climate policy may be weaker than existing survey research suggests.

Physician attitudes about abortion and their willingness to consult in abortion care at a Midwestern academic medical center

ObjectiveTo assess abortion-related attitudes, practices, and perceptions among physicians of all specialties at a Wisconsin academic medical center. Study designWe developed and disseminated a cross-sectional web and mail survey to physicians at our academic center using a list generated by Human Resources. We performed descriptive analyses and assessed bivariate relationships between measures of support for abortion, perceived climate of opinion, willingness to consult in abortion-related cases, and sociodemographic and professional characteristics. We used binary logistic regression to model willingness to consult. ResultsWe sent the survey to 1357 physicians and received 913 (67%) responses. Participants reported strong support for unrestricted access to abortion and the efforts of abortion providers but estimated relatively lower support among peers. Compared to 556 (62%) who reported “a lot” of support for abortion access, only 183 (21%) estimated the same level of support among peers. Similarly, 615 (69%) participants reported “a lot” of support for abortion providers, compared to only 227 (25%) who estimated the same level of support among peers. Participants most commonly estimated that peers “somewhat” support abortion access (381; 43%) and abortion providers (344; 39%). Across specialties, 799 (90%) physicians said they were at least “somewhat” willing to consult in abortion-related cases. Compared to obstetrician-gynecologists and family physicians, other specialists were less likely to be willing to consult (aOR = 0.43, 95% CI 0.29–0.65), though majorities of both groups were willing. Physicians who perceived equal or higher support for abortion among peers were more likely to be willing to consult (aOR = 2.17, 95% CI 1.60–2.95). ConclusionMost physicians at our center reported support for abortion; however, those who perceived less support among peers reported less willingness to consult in abortion-related care, regardless of specialty. ImplicationsEven among physicians who supported abortion, the perception that peers were less supportive deterred participation in abortion-related care at our institution. Where abortion care is isolated or stigmatized, physicians may be unaware of colleagues’ true attitudes about abortion. Efforts to normalize communication about abortion care could improve access and quality.

Unpacking Public Perceptions of Terrorism: Does Type of Attack Matter?

The study explores terrorism threat perceptions, focusing on the American public’s views of conventional and cyber-terrorism methods. Based on a national survey data, we find that when asked about the likelihood and the extent of threat associated with each type of terror method, citizens make clear and significant distinctions. Furthermore, these distinctions translate to variations in counter-terrorism policy preferences. Our analyses reveal that, considering the low level of knowledge of complex security issues, measuring citizens’ `true attitudes’ requires using survey instruments with lower level of abstraction, which force respondents to ‘stop and think’, and better reflect their associated opinions.

Conspiracist cognition: chaos, convenience, and cause for concern

ABSTRACT There has been much concern with the abundance of misinformation in public discourse. Although misinformation has always played a role in political debate, its character has shifted from support for a specific position to a ‘shock and chaos’ stream of misinformation and conspiracy theories. Exposure to conspiracy theories can have considerable adverse impact on society. I argue that scholars therefore have a responsibility to combat conspiracy theories and misinformation generally. Exercising this responsibility requires an understanding of the varied rhetorical roles of conspiracy theories. Here I focus on instances in which people reject unequivocal scientific evidence and invoke conspiracy theories, or radical anti-institutional positions, based on ideological imperatives. I argue that those positions do not always reflect true attitudes. Instead, people may deploy extreme rhetoric as a pragmatic tool of political expression. I investigate this possibility by focusing on the role of conspiracy theories in the rejection of science. Conspiracist cognition and rhetoric violate the epistemic standards that underpin science. Ironically, this violation of epistemic standards renders conspiracy theories useful as a rationally deployed tool that serves political purposes. I present a study that confirms that conspiracy theories can be deployed to support worldview-motivated denial of science. I provide suggestions how scholars can debunk or defang conspiratorial rhetoric.

Feeling correct is feeling prejudiced: The differential effects of attitude correctness and attitude clarity on evaluations of outgroups

Global attitude certainty consists of two subconstructs: attitude clarity—certainty that one is aware of one’s true attitudes—and attitude correctness, certainty that one’s attitudes are morally correct and valid. Attitude correctness is more often associated with group-related psychological and behavioral outcomes than attitude clarity. As such, we expected that attitude correctness, but not attitude clarity, would be associated with more negative attitudes toward outgroups when group boundaries are defined by attitudes. Across four studies, greater attitude correctness related to more negative attitudes toward attitudinal outgroups regardless of context (e.g., political, religious); attitude clarity’s relationship to prejudice was inconsistent (Studies 1a and 2: positive or no relationship; Study 3: negative; Studies 1b and 4: no relationship). In Studies 2 and 3, mediational analyses showed that greater attitude correctness was associated with stronger beliefs that group boundaries are sharp and distinct (i.e., discreteness beliefs), which in turn was associated with greater prejudice. Finally, Study 4 demonstrated that the attitude correctness–prejudice link was associated with greater intention to engage in competitive behaviors in a conflict resolution scenario with an outgroup member.

Implicit attitudes toward wildlife products

Wildlife conservation is a key issue for the sustainable development of nature. Understanding consumers’ true attitudes toward wildlife products would contribute to the promotion of wildlife conservation. Yet, the inner thoughts of consumers toward wildlife products are difficult to acquire, particularly under the circumstance that some wildlife trades are illegal. Most available researches have used self-report questionnaires to measure consumers’ explicit attitudes that are usually biased by social desirability. Different from previous approach, the current study tend to use implicit association test, a well-accepted measurement, to detect implicit attitudes that are impacted by automatically activated evaluation without performers’ awareness. Our results indicated that participants may explicitly expressed negative attitudes towards wildlife products, but implicitly be in favor of them. Besides, participants hold stronger negative attitudes towards the consumption of hedonic wildlife products than utilitarian wildlife products. The inconsistency in attitudes we identified shows the importance of introducing implicit approaches to avoid evasive responses, and to accurately understand participants’ attitudes toward wildlife products. It is a convincing preliminary experimental evidence for designing effective interventions.

Antibiotic Stewardship for Nursing: Can E-Learning Be a First Step?

Background In 2019, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention updated the Core Elements of Hospital Antimicrobial Stewardship Program guidelines. As part of the update, a greater emphasis is placed on the role of nurses in improving antibiotic stewardship (AS). Currently, there is minimal research that has looked at nurses’ attitudes/beliefs towards AS. Potential reasons could include lack of education about stewardship, poor communication among providers, hospital/unit culture, concern for additional work, and perception of it being not part of their scope of practice. The objectives of this project are to identify nurses’ true attitudes toward AS, to discover the usefulness of the modules, and to determine the effectiveness of the modules in changing nurses’ attitudes towards AS. Methods Three short eLearning modules (Antimicrobial Stewardship for Nursing, Pharmacy Topics for Nursing, and Laboratory Topics for Nursing) and a survey were developed for acute care hospital nurses. The nurses were asked to view the three eLearning modules and then complete an online survey. Twenty-eight nurses completed the survey. An analysis was done on the results. Results The results of the survey showed that eighty-two percent of nurses felt they should participate in AS work. Seventy-three percent felt more empowered to participate in AS discussions. One hundred percent said that the information could be used in their everyday work. Twenty-three percent wanted more education. Nurses cited lack of education (41%) and hospital/unit culture (27%) as barriers to participating in AS. Conclusions Although the sample size was small, the survey showed that the majority of nurses want to be a part of the AS team. The modules were effective in educating them and the results suggests that short eLearning modules may be a good first step in engaging nurses in AS. The study is ongoing. In 2019, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention updated the Core Elements of Hospital Antimicrobial Stewardship Program guidelines. As part of the update, a greater emphasis is placed on the role of nurses in improving antibiotic stewardship (AS). Currently, there is minimal research that has looked at nurses’ attitudes/beliefs towards AS. Potential reasons could include lack of education about stewardship, poor communication among providers, hospital/unit culture, concern for additional work, and perception of it being not part of their scope of practice. The objectives of this project are to identify nurses’ true attitudes toward AS, to discover the usefulness of the modules, and to determine the effectiveness of the modules in changing nurses’ attitudes towards AS. Three short eLearning modules (Antimicrobial Stewardship for Nursing, Pharmacy Topics for Nursing, and Laboratory Topics for Nursing) and a survey were developed for acute care hospital nurses. The nurses were asked to view the three eLearning modules and then complete an online survey. Twenty-eight nurses completed the survey. An analysis was done on the results. The results of the survey showed that eighty-two percent of nurses felt they should participate in AS work. Seventy-three percent felt more empowered to participate in AS discussions. One hundred percent said that the information could be used in their everyday work. Twenty-three percent wanted more education. Nurses cited lack of education (41%) and hospital/unit culture (27%) as barriers to participating in AS. Although the sample size was small, the survey showed that the majority of nurses want to be a part of the AS team. The modules were effective in educating them and the results suggests that short eLearning modules may be a good first step in engaging nurses in AS. The study is ongoing.

Comparing the explicit and implicit attitudes of energy stakeholders and the public towards carbon capture and storage

Research on the attitudes of energy stakeholders and the general public towards Carbon Capture and Storage is a necessary starting point for the industry to understand the development trajectory of the technology. However, previous studies have only used explicit approaches, such as self-report questionnaires, to measure attitudes. Some researchers have argued that explicit measures are not able to reflect participants’ true thoughts. To investigate the potential gap between the results of explicit tests and the true attitudes of participants, this study uses the implicit association test, to detect the attitudes towards environmental technology for the first time (to our knowledge), by comparing the explicit and implicit attitudes of energy stakeholders and the public towards carbon capture and storage. The results indicate that energy stakeholders hold favorable attitudes, whereas public vary across the two tests. Public show supportive attitudes in the explicit test, but present their concerns about the risk of carbon capture and storage in the implicit test. The inconsistencies between the explicit and implicit test results among the public indicate that researchers need to be very cautious about the method they use to understand attitudes towards carbon capture and storage as well as other environmental technologies. Further, we suggested that implicit association test would be an effective and easy-to-use approach to complement traditional explicit tests to discover participants’ real attitudes towards environmental technologies in the future research.

A Self-assessment Approach to Adolescents’ Cyberethics Education

Aim/Purpose: Teachers usually educate students’ cyberethics using debate, case-based discussion, and role-playing instructional methods in a face-to-face setting. With the presence of teacher and peers, students may not be willing to share their true attitudes, and it may affect the effectiveness of the teaching methods. To tackle the challenge, the author applied a teaching method with a core component of a pressure-free self-assessment approach to improving adolescents’ cyberethics education. This study aimed to explore the impact of the self-assessment method on students’ self-knowledge and self-awareness of cyberethics. Background: Since people usually use their own devices in an individual environment to participate in online activities, going online can be regarded as a private act. The behaviours of youngsters in the online environment may be different from that in the classroom when they are engaged in a face-to-face discussion, especially as they are not required to use their real names to go online. Research has suggested that youngsters have a higher inclination to misbehave online. Together with the fact that they are regular Internet users, and they are overrepresented online, there is an urgent need to foster ethical online behaviour in adolescents. Methodology: A group of 28 students of age about 14 participated in this study. They were studying in secondary level 3 of a government-subsidised secondary school. All of them were required to take an information technology course in their formal curriculum. The researcher applied a framework of adolescents’ cyberethics education to nurture the students with appropriate cyberethics. It includes four dimensions, namely information security, privacy, intellectual property and netiquette. In the first phase of the teaching method, the students received a lecture on cyberethics to obtain related knowledge. In the second phase, the students were engaged in a self-assessment exercise on cyberethics. Data were collected using a knowledge test, a questionnaire, and the self-assessment exercise. Contribution: This paper highlights the challenge arisen from the face-to-face setting of commonly used instructional methods of cyberethics education, such as role-playing and debate. This study suggested a self-assessment teaching method with the rationales underpinned by theories in the area of social psychology. This paper provides detailed elaboration on the instructional method. The author also suggested a framework of adolescents’ cyberethics education. Findings: The students considered the self-assessment exercise allowed them to reflect on their attitudes on cyberethics. It thereby enhanced their self-knowledge on cyberethics. They also expressed that the method was more effective for self-reflection compared with commonly used instructional methods. Moreover, importantly, they stated that they would be more aware of cyberethics in their future online activities. Recommendations for Practitioners: Teachers are advised to use a self-assessment exercise together with commonly used instructional methods, such as case-based discussion, debate, and role-playing, in their future practices of cyberethics education. Recommendation for Researchers: Researchers could consider youngsters’ cognitive and psychological development, and social and emotional factors to improve adolescents’ cyberethics education. Impact on Society: It is anticipated that youngsters would have a higher level of awareness to uphold information security, protect privacy, respect intellectual property and maintain appropriate netiquette. They could then demonstrate more appropriate behaviours when they go online after receiving cyberethics education using the approach elaborated in this paper. Future Research: It is valuable to explore how different factors in cognitive, psychological, social, and emotional domains affect youngsters’ online behaviours. Future research may also design effective instructional methods to improve adolescents’ cyberethics education.

Pointing fingers at others: The neural correlates of actor-observer asymmetry in blame attribution

People tend to describe others' immoral behaviors as intentional and dispositional, and their own as unintentional events. The actor-observer asymmetry might reflect at least true attitudes potentially free from intentional faking. Implicit attitudes — i.e., automatic evaluation of the rightness or wrongness of actions — play a central role in guiding moral decision-making. Yet, little research has investigated how value computations are associated with actor-observer asymmetry of moral decision-making. In this fMRI study, we developed the morally-laden implicit association test (mIAT) to examine the extent to which implicit attitudes are predictive of online neural response when participants mentally simulate or passively observe morally-laden behaviors such as helping or harming others. Results showed that the scores on the mIAT were predictive of actor-observer asymmetry when attributing blame for immoral behavior, associated with neural responses in the orbitofrontal cortex and temporal pole. The asymmetry between first-hand experiencing and passive viewing moral behavior recruited the activity in the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex and right temporoparietal junction. These findings indicate that implicit moral attitudes can predict moral evaluation and neural responses to asymmetry between experiencing and observing injustice. They provide important knowledge regarding the individual differences involved in the computational mechanisms underlying how implicit attitudes guide moral decision-making.

Self-other asymmetries in the perceived validity of the Implicit Association Test.

The Implicit Association Test (IAT) is the most popular instrument in implicit social cognition, with some scholars and practitioners calling for its use in applied settings. Yet, little is known about how people perceive the test's validity as a measure of their true attitudes toward members of other groups. Four experiments manipulated the desirability of the IAT's result and whether that result referred to one's own attitudes or other people's. Results showed a self-other asymmetry, such that people perceived a desirable IAT result to be more valid when it applied to themselves than to others, whereas the opposite held for undesirable IAT results. A fifth experiment demonstrated that these self-other differences influence how people react to the idea of using the IAT as a personnel selection tool. Experiment 6 tested whether the self-other effect was driven by motivation or expectations, finding evidence for motivated reasoning. All told, the current findings suggest potential barriers to implementing the IAT in applied settings. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2019 APA, all rights reserved).

Target Setting Outlook for New Residential Building Energy Efficiency Promotion in China: A Frontline Perspective Using Delphi

Promoting energy efficiency (EE) requirements for new residential buildings has been proven to be an effective way to slow down the rapid increase of energy consumption. Its successful implementation relies significantly on the attitudes and participation of various stakeholders within the industry, yet they are normally taken for granted. This paper explores and reports both the consensus among and the diversity of the attitudes of frontline stakeholders toward future EE requirements in the new residential building sector via a nationwide Delphi questionnaire distributed to 29 institutes and 25 experts. Results indicate that promotion of approximately 30% EE every five years until 2030 is suggested and that 20% EE promotion every five years is the most likely to be achieved. In addition, China should progressively adopt the energy intensity index into the current building EE evaluation system. This paper also gives a detailed description of opinions from frontline stakeholders. The findings are expected to help researchers and policymakers better understand the true attitudes of stakeholders, thereby enabling the formation of a proper outlook for new residential building EE promotion.

Answering Questions About Race: How Racial and Ethnic Identities Influence Survey Response

Given the fundamental role that race and ethnicity play in U.S. society, sensitive survey items on this subject can often lead individuals to underreport their true attitudes. Previous studies have shown that the absence of an interviewer reduces the pressure to provide socially desirable responses. The 2012 and 2016 American National Election Studies (ANES), where both interviewer and self-administered surveys were used, allows us to test whether mode effects emerge in the way respondents answer survey items related to racial attitudes. We also expect mode effects to vary based on the extent to which individuals are politically socialized in the United States. We find that respondents tend to underreport their racial animosity in interview-administered versus online surveys. Moreover, underreporting is nonexistent in the responses provided by foreign-born Latinos, but emerges for U.S.-born Latinos, Blacks, and Whites. These findings pose a number of implications for our understanding of racial attitudes and survey mode.

Inexplicable Sex Differences in Homonegativity: A Proposed New Paradigm of Implicit Cognitive Systems

Sex differences in self-reported homonegativity is prevalent in past research, yet unexplained. We examined possible factors associated with sex differences in overall homonegativity. Heterosexuals self-reported on scales including variables of differential exposure to homosexuals, disgust sensitivity, and reporting biases. Males consistently expressed more negative attitudes toward homosexuals, especially gay men. Many variables were significantly correlated with overall homonegativity and revealed significant sex differences, however, unconvincingly. Self-report measures may lack validity, not always capturing peoples true attitudes. Utilizing a new paradigm of implicit cognitive systems may be more worthwhile in explaining social psychological representations of the abstract cognitive construct of prejudice/stereotyping.

LYCEUM EDUCATION IN CONTEMPORARY RUSSIA

The concept-theoretical problems of lyceum education are investigated. Lyceum as a type of educational institution is observed as a cultural phenomenon. Educational activities are examined from the cultural point of view that creates conditions for spiritual and moral upbringing, patriotic education, based on the true feelings and attitudes. The aim of the investigation is to identify the essential characteristics of lyceum education, its values, ideals and goals of development, its synergy potential in the innovative development of the whole education sector. Methods . Historical, cultural and pedagogical analysis of modern lyceum education from the point of the development of democratic goals and global challenges was submitted. The problem of personal identification in the system of social relations and cultural processes is analyzed. The problems of scientific knowledge about the lyceum education and their bases are studied. Traditions of lyceum education are analyzed. It is indicated that they give the coordinates of scientific thinking that require a philosophical hermeneutic approach to the understanding of modern life and the analysis of contradictory processes and phenomena of reality that provide the nurturing and development of the individual. The results of research have heuristic value. The creation of new schools is based not only on the search for a universal, repetitive, but on the study of special, exceptional, which is not only now seize the minds of mankind. It’s required to anticipate the expectations of the future, based on the spiritual experience of humanity in order to grasp the unknown, which can be revealed only in the most general outlines. Scientific novelty. The definition of lyceum education is given and modern features are highlighted. The technology of training professional and social leaders is identified. Practical significance. Historical, cultural and pedagogical analysis of realworld experience creating high schools and prospects of development of this type of education in modern society is given. The practical significance of the study lies in the fact that lyceum is considered broader than the school with in-depth study of specific subjects, but as a center of reflection and formation of innovative experience.