Formation of value orientations of younger schoolchildren in the process of studying the elective course «Value world in natural sciences»

Abstract

The article is devoted to the actual problem of the formation of values and value
orientations of younger schoolchildren in the context of the elective course "Value world in natural science" developed and implemented by us. The author's elective course, being quite broad in content, has significant opportunities in the development of value orientations of elementary school students in terms of updating the intellectual resource of the dynamics of value orientations. The scientific and methodological support of the elective course is aimed at launching the mechanism for the formation of socially significant values and value orientations. The article describes the subject areas of the elective course and their possibilities in the formation of important social and personal values of primary school students. As a result of the study, we can conclude that this modern elective course, presented in a value-changing nature, has new important opportunities.

The main features of the elective course program are its universality (the ability to form several value orientations within different areas, such as a value attitude to health, environmental and national values), relevance for the subject of value-forming and value-transforming activities (the forms and methods of the elective course should be interesting, full of events and new), individuality (a means of forming value-value orientations, taking into account the demanded value system of society and the system of personal value orientations of the individual), interactivity (to have a high degree of interaction not only between subjects of extracurricular activities, but also between subjects and objects of extracurricular activities), resourcefulness (the presence of internal and external pedagogical resources of extracurricular activities for the formation and development of value orientations of younger students). It has been established that the effectiveness of the transformation of the value orientations of younger schoolchildren by means of extracurricular activities depends on a number of factors, the fundamental one being the creation of a system that provides a comprehensive pedagogical impact on the student's personality.