Spiritual and moral culture of modern youth as an object of pedagogical analysis

Abstract

The article highlights the relevance of the problem of personality
spirituality, substantiates its theoretical foundations, analyzes key
concepts, presents results on the formation of spiritual and moral
values in future teachers. The author of the study aims to attempt
to clarify the modern definition of the term "spiritual and moral
culture" based on the analysis of its interpretations by pedagogy.
Attention is also paid to the components of spiritual and moral
culture: cognition, morality, upbringing, education, law, politics,
philosophy, ethics, aesthetics, science, art, literature, mythology,
religion; it is analyzed that as a pedagogical concept "spiritual and
moral culture" and its formation implies the following features in
its content: purposefulness; the presence of some sample, even
the most general, as a socio-cultural reference point; the
correspondence of the process of development of socio-cultural
values in the historical progress of society; the presence of a
certain system of organized influences. In the publication, the
author notes that among the modern problems of the
development of spiritual and moral culture, the problem of the
development of the spiritual and moral culture of the individual,
as well as the constructive role of the state and social institutions
in overcoming negative phenomena in this area and preventing
their further spread, is relevant. Attention is focused on the
components of the spiritual culture of the individual: intellectual
culture of knowledge and thinking; moral culture – conscience,
honor, dignity, culture of communication and feelings; national
self-consciousness, political-ecological, legal culture; aesthetic
culture. In modern studies of the problems of social morality and
spiritual and moral education, the priority direction is to determine
the system of connections between the moral development of the
individual and society as a whole. Therefore, the main education
task of higher education is to educate an individual capable of
moral self-improvement and autonomous self-regulation of his
activities and behavior, which cannot be subject to the influence
of spontaneous or purposeful destructive social factors. The
author claims that this is achieved through the development of a
high spiritual and moral culture under the influence of scientifically
sound targeted educational technologies.