Spirituality of a Personality: Methodology, Theory and Practice

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Authors: M. V. Bezuhla

The characteristic of the value of knowledge as the basis for spiritual and cultural highly educated personality development is given in the article. The concepts "knowledge", "understanding", "value", and "education" are defined. The views of modern scientists-educators on the essence of the value of knowledge and value of education in the aspect of studying the significance of spiritual and cultural highly educated personality development are analyzed. The analysis of the peculiar features of spiritual personality is made on the basis of the works of modern scientists-educators. Particular attention is paid to the characteristics of the cultural personality prepared by P. Schafer. The brief version of the 21st century educated person’s portrait is presented. An attempt has been made to identify the most significant features of the spiritual and cultural highly educated personality of the modern student. The emphasis is made on the fact that the image of the modern educated person lacks the depth of the inner spiritual world and firm cultural and moral core that could become the basis for the making up of the holistic spiritual and cultural highly educated personality of the modern student, and not the "faceless client of the corporation" aimed at receipt of personal profit. The author notes, when the matter is about the spiritual and cultural highly educated personality, it is meant the bearer of spiritual culture, spiritual and cultural values and values of education, who has taken the path of "spiritual and cultural navigation" and constant self-improvement for the benefit of other people.

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Authors: N. A. Varivoda

The article is devoted to the problem of determination of moral values significance in the content of educating primary school children. It is stated that the very moral values adopted by primary school-age children appear to be the foundations for forming spiritual and moral individuals able to think and act on the basis of morality. The article specifies the essence of the concept of moral values and explains their role as a main reference point in a person's life. In the article the characteristic of the moral values as Beauty, Justice, Honesty and Conscience are given and their importance in the content of educating primary school children within the framework of spiritual safety of society is determined. It is noted, that from a psychophysiological viewpoint, the age from six to ten is especially favorable for forming value spheres of a child, because it is the age, when the processes of exploration of the world and self-exploration, together with interaction with social and natural environment, become especially active. It is indicated, that childhood is the best period for inculcating the skills of seeing a person’s inner beauty, appreciating others not by their pretty faces but by their actions and abilities. The reason is that for providing humanity’s wellbeing and peaceful life, it is necessary not only to aim a young generation at creating beauty, but also develop their Inner Beauty as the basis for mutual understanding, mutual respect and care in a society.

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Authors: I. L. Viktorenko, N. O. Honcharova

The article deals with the problem of developing the pedagogical creativity of the future primary school teachers as a prerequisite for improving the quality of their readiness for teaching the educational branch "Social Studies". The relevance of the problem is determined by one of the priorities of the New Ukrainian School – the comprehensive development of the schoolchild’s personality, his or her talents, abilities, competences, creativity, curiosity. Attention is drawn to the fact that the personality of the teacher plays an important role in forming the personality of the primary schoolchildren. The university teachers should create appropriate conditions for the preparation of such a teacher. The authors briefly provide an essential characteristic of the phenomenon under study. Pedagogical creativity is defined as the most important criterion for the qualitative forming of the personality of the modern school teacher, a necessary condition for his or her self-knowledge and development, characterized by a high degree of development of motives, characterological features and creative abilities. Involving students in productive creative activity while studying literary works on the subject "I Am in the World" is considered by the authors as an effective way of developing pedagogical creativity, a prerequisite for the manifestation of creative activity of a person, and also ensuring the further development of creative thinking of their pupils. The products of the students’ creative activity presented in the study are aimed at the full appreciation of the texts of different genres by primary schoolchildren in the lessons “I Am in the World”.

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Authors: Е. А. Karlovas

The article is devoted to the analysis of phenomena of aesthetization of culture – epistemological aesthetization and aesthetization of everyday life. It has been determined that the formation of a new cultural image influenced by the tendency of aesthetization involves the expansion of aesthetic to the sphere of culture as a whole and the transformation of the very being, causing a change in the behavior of a person in the world. The transition from one type of culture to another is connected with the breakdown of social and cultural cycles, and today there is a change in several cultural epochs in one human life, which causes the search for new ways of adapting to a changing environment. The relativity of cultural values is actualized by the theme of nonlinearity in social development, the result of which is the rapid aesthetization of the way of life of a person. The processes of aesthetization can be found in everyday life, determining the specifics of contemporary culture. Attention is drawn to the phenomenon of everyday life as a result of the development of attention to differences, since aesthetization of modern culture can not be understood without describing the role of daily routine in the formation of spiritual values. The daily routine ensures the emergence of new cultural values: entertainment, enjoyment from the process, and not from the result becomes the dominant value. It is dangerous, however, that events are perceived as kitsch, and the festival of everyday life becomes one of the components of the aesthetization of inclusiveness. The duality of culture today is expressed in the "superficial" (everyday) aesthetization and "deep" (epistemological) aesthetization, compensating for rationalization through pluralization of the aesthetic.

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Authors: I. V. Kushakova, I. Yu. Kurilchenko, A. Gordienko

The article deals with the concept and structure of conscious attitude to a healthy way of life, shows the methods and results of self-assessment of health and diagnostics of students' attitude to their own health. The modern stage of development of society is characterized by the growth of diseases, disability, mortality, a sharp decrease in the level of human activity, especially children and youth. To achieve the General health of the population should prefer the strategy of health of practically healthy people. Modern medicine is aimed at eliminating the existing disease and cannot significantly affect the preservation of human health, so there is a need to find effective ways and means of preserving and developing the health of the individual. Characteristic phenomena of our era were negligent attitude to their own health and a significant spread of bad habits among young people. Only purposeful health care can preserve the prospect of human survival. Humanization of education requires a qualitatively new approach to human needs, the formation of sustainable motivations for a healthy lifestyle, positive social behaviour. In the scientific literature, the importance of various methods of self-assessment of health as a means of education of conscious attitude of young people to their own health is almost not disclosed. The task of our research is to find out the attitude of students to their own health and healthy lifestyle for the organization and correction of further educational work. We define a conscious attitude to a healthy lifestyle as a sustainable personal acceptance of effective and reliable means of maintaining their own health – the rules and postulates of such a lifestyle. In the structure of the named relation it is possible to allocate cognitive, emotionally-valuable and effectively-practical components. We investigated the attitude to their own health and indicators of physical and mental condition of students 1 and 2 courses of specialty "Physical rehabilitation". We came to the conclusion that the General state of health of students is good, they have good physical fitness. At the same time, the attitude to one's own health is mostly unconscious, often careless, which indicates a lack of knowledge about health as a physical condition and social phenomenon, as well as the need to foster a more careful, conscious, value-based attitude to one's own health and the health of others.

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Authors: G.V. Lokarieva, N.V. Stadnichenko

The article summarizes the information about the formation of the theater as a necessary component of the artistic culture of society at every stage of its historical development, the close connection between theatrical art and social processes, the dependence of the nature of this relationship on the level of economic development and the level of formation of political, ethical and cultural needs of society, the versatility of the theater as a tool for identifying and solving social problems. The importance of the theater’s role in forming relations between members of social groups, development of spiritual potential and intellectual and creative possibilities of everyone in engagement with universal values is revealed. The interrelation of theatrical art with the social processes is emphasized, which is implemented through actors' embodiment of life's situations and various manifestations of human relationships and through involvement of the viewer with the creative communication through his or her interaction with the actor in the process of perceiving performances which are the work of theatrical art. It is proved that in different periods of history, the theater, while reflecting the existing social problems, affects the formation of public opinion, promotes the spread of new ideas and relevant social information that from ancient Greece to our times performs its inherent functions and, despite the modern level of development of mass communication (television, cinema, the Internet, etc.) is an indispensable and necessary tool for establishing communication in modern society, which makes it possible to use theatrical art as a means of forming social relations.

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Authors: O. М. Oleksiuk

Modern science has put in the center of research a comprehensive interdisciplinary approach, integrating various branches of scientific knowledge around the problem of the complete knowledge of Man. The spiritual component, based on the artistic education, will become the cornerstone which will raise education on the basis of integrity, interdisciplinarity, and integrity in order to develop the spiritual potential of the individual. The article deals with interdisciplinarity as a mechanism for realizing the spiritual potential of the individual in higher artistic education, since it is a question of the conformity of the organization of the educational process with the requirements for the formation of representations of a coherent picture of the world, a corresponding world outlook. The basis of interdisciplinarity lies in the scientific semantics: interdisciplinarity performs a syntactic role, on the one hand, and on the other, contributes to the growth of semantic connections in schemes and transitions between different subject areas. The priority positions of interdisciplinarity are revealed, it is shown that the integration of scientific knowledge is a universal way of translating cultural and historical experience, a condition for the deployment of spiritual essential forces of man by means of art. In order to modernize the global society through a positive strategy for the functioning of civilized communities, it is necessary to reach an understanding in the assessment of interdisciplinarity as a decisive and significant condition in the system of inter-subjective relations. The integrated construct of interdisciplinary has a spiritual potential, which helps to realize the reflection of the optimal options for designing, choosing and harmonizing mutual understanding. All this opens up a considerable resource in overcoming negative tendencies, reaching consensus in the space of modern society.

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Authors: S. V. Pehareva, A. S. Pehareva

The problem of the formation of value categories is the most difficult issue of science that is ultimately unacceptable and constantly attracting attention. The article substantiates the problems of upbringing the spirituality of the younger generation, which leads to problems with the universal values of society. Modern approaches to the understanding of the concept of spirituality, and universal values are presented. The work reveals the principles and methods of work for the formation of the spirituality of the individual and his moral qualities. The authors emphasize the need for purposeful and effective work on the formation of personality with its inherent features and qualities that would meet the requirements of modern society. In the work special attention is paid to the method of formation of personal qualities of students, which gradually influences various aspects of internalization of the personality of cultural values and morals. The purpose of the article is to determine the ways of forming spirituality as a guarantee of strengthening the universal moral values of society The modern system of educational work should be focused on the formation of basic moral relations that determine the human life position in society, its outlook, the meaning of life. The article highlights the content of the eternal values of mankind, which must lay the foundation of spirituality as the initial direction for the further development of human civilization. Taking into account the dedicated psychological and pedagogical conditions, we have developed a model for the formation of moral values during the pedagogical interaction of subjects of the educational process. The work analyzes the content of the process of upbringing the spiritual and moral culture of the individual and the need to use a wide arsenal of pedagogical tools. The work performed is not an exhaustive analysis of the problem. Further research and development require programs and projects of moral education that ensure the comprehensive and harmonious development of the individual, and, as a consequence, the strengthening of universal values in society.

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Authors: O. V. Radziyevska, S. V. Ryzhkova

The article deals with the methodical aspects of the study of Anglicisms in the section "Lexicology" by the students of secondary school. In the work the authors offer the most effective ways of working at the words that are included in the vocabulary of the modern Ukrainian language from other languages. For the formation of language skills, secondary school students are offered a system of exercises aimed at acquiring abilities to define Anglicisms, to obtain Ukrainian equivalent to them, to work with dictionaries, etc. The urgency of the article is that in recent decades the Ukrainian lexical and semantic system has complex processes due to the strong influence of Anglicisms, which requires scientific analysis and generalization. Referring to the linguodidacts’ scientific research, the article clarifies that the study of borrowed vocabulary is based on the following principles: extra-language, lexical and grammatical; semantic; diachronic, where everyone provides versatile work at the word not only at Ukrainian language lessons, but also during the other lessons. The researchers note that the words borrowed from the English language make up a dynamic lexical composition in the Ukrainian language, therefore the study of Anglicisms by secondary school students is one of the leading places in the study of lexicology. During the work the following methods were used: theoretical – studying and analysis of scientific and methodological literature, generalization of information for the definition of theoretical and methodological research foundations of the borrowed vocabulary. The proposed exercises can be used in writing methodological recommendations, course papers, in the professional activity of a teacher-philologist.

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Authors: S. S. Rashydova

The author states that the future educator and teacher who prepares him for professional work already during the period of study should realize that the teacher is the bearer and translator of culture (general, professional, national, personal, culture of communication, etc.). According to the author's conviction, the cultural personality of the teacher is impossible without developed artistic needs, without the need for domestic or world literature and its best samples. In the light of the indicated subject matter, which is at the intersection of various fields of knowledge, this time attention was drawn to the definitions of the concepts "culture of personality", "cultural personality", "personal culture"; to the research of modern scholars who consider education as a "cultural fact", upbringing as a "process of humancreation, culturecreation, spiritualitycreation", and aesthetic education as one of the universal aspects of culture of personality.. The author continues to insist on the artistic component in the formation of the cultural personality of the teacher, singling out belles-lettres as a powerful tool in this process, which forms and develops both language, and will, and feelings, and mind, and consequently, the worldview of the personality. At the same time, literature contributes to the moral perfection of the personality and pupil, and educator. Therefore, it is emphasized that one should not exclude upbringing from the student's life, in general, and artistic and aesthetic upbringing, in particular, turning this life exclusively into a narrowly directed scientific and professional community, which, unfortunately, is observed today. It is a proven fact that the sensory sphere is better educated by the art, and consequently, aesthetic upbringing better fulfils both the function of developing the emotional and sensory sphere, and the function of shaping artistic needs. Defining the artistic need as a major spiritual need, contributing to the formation of the whole world of the whole person, the essence of which is expressed in a stable manifestation of artistic and creative activity, striving for it, the creative component of the artistic need is singled out separately. Considering creativity as a "basic human need", it is emphasized that the very stable artistic need functions as a need for creativity.

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Authors: L. A. Spivak, A. O. Taranets

The article is devoted to the problem of the formation of ecological culture in students with disabilities in the process of studying natural science. It is determined that in classical and modern psychological and pedagogical practice, attention is focused on the enormous potentialities of the positive influence of ecological education on the formation of the personality, the development of its spirituality and the formation of the foundations of ecological culture. It is proved that this problem is inadequately elaborated in Ukrainian psychopedagogy. It is found out that the ecological culture of a pupil with disabilities appears to be a personal phenomenon. Its formation lies in the cognitive, emotional-axiological and activity aspect. The theoretical and methodological foundations of environmental education of students with disabilities are defined. The results of studying and analysing the real experience of work on the formation of ecological culture in students with disabilities in the educational process of a special school are presented. The relationship between the understanding of the availability of information on natural science and ecology and the nature of the manifestation of the emotional value attitude to nature and nature protection activity is shown. It is emphasized that the ability to adequately motivate value judgments, critically evaluate concrete actions on the objects of nature, condemn ecologically illiterate behavior, make decisions and correct one's own behavior in accordance with environmental norms and rules is presented in a rather fragmentary manner even among high school students. Four general levels of the formation of ecological culture in students of special and general schools (from high to very low) are justified. The indicators and criteria for the formation of the ecological culture of pupils of the 6th and 9th grades are determined, its features, age dynamics and potential possibilities are shown.

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Authors: I. O. Ushakova

The article is devoted to research of the process of organizing the development of cross-cultural communication in English for Specific Purposes (ESP) classes. The concept of "cross-cultural communication" is considered, mutual influence and interrelation of a person – his language – culture – communication are emphasized. The author focuses on the interdisciplinary, integrated approach to the teaching of ESP, which involves both the use of various types of art in their interaction, as well as other means of indirect communication (English-language resources of modern mass media); examples of communicative failures in situations of intercultural interaction. The article analyzes real-life situations of cross-cultural communication failures, giving examples of the complex of arts in the context of the topic "Ethical values". The author concludes that the achievement of mutual understanding in the process of intercultural communication is possible and depends not only on the level of knowledge of a foreign language, but also requires general cultural and specific background knowledge about life, traditions, norms, standards of behavior, which are inherent in foreign culture, and their correlation with the system of moral and spiritual values in one's own. So students learn how to carry on a dialogue in a foreign language with the representatives of different cultures on a private and professional level, taking into account personal attitudes, cultural values of the speaker in this preserving cultural identity and uniqueness