Засвоєння цінностей і формування у студентської молоді готовності до гуманістичної діяльності

Abstract

The article presents the analysis of topical problems dealing with the formation of students` humanistic value orientations in contemporary society. The terminology apparatus is determined, urgent problems of students` humanistic values formation process are analyzed; the role of humanistic values in their plans for future, the choice of future profession, attitude to others is determined. Based on the analysis of psychological and pedagogical research concerning the contents of the notion “values”, the mechanisms of their formation and the ways of reaching goals in the training process, the main levels and their components of students` humanistic values formation process were determined. The first level concerns the knowledge about social norms (principles, assessments) fostering the humanistic values into personal orientations transformation; the second level deals with axiological techniques and skills acquisition, especially those, comprising the ability to compare, explain, generalize and critically evaluate facts and activities of people based on their own system of values; skills to identify contradictions in positions, different interests, the needs of social groups and individuals and the role in events and processes, tendencies and trends of human development; abilities to estimate different opinions and thoughts about events and phenomena, recognizing that some sources of information can be biased. The meaning of the third level can be covered by the fact when a student has a certain attitude to the phenomena and processes of the inside and outside world, which is based and determined by the system of humanistic values. Students` self-understanding their own abilities and desire for active humanistic activity in society, manifestation of value-centered attitude to a person was experimentally tested. The efficiency of educational work was proved.