Peculiarities of moral self-determination of students’ youth
Peculiarities of students’ moral self-determination as a component of their life self-determination are considered in the article. The problem becomes particularly relevant due to new requirements to personality of highschool graduates in the changing social conditions and for moral state of future society as well. The article describes the moral self-determination of students, based on the results of empirical research of students of the Vladimir State University. Students from three departments: Physical and Mathematical, Natural Sciences and Geography and Social Pedagogy and Psychology participated in the research. The description of student’s ideas about morality is given, their moral strategies and ethical orientations are characterized. The interrelation of moral orientations of students with their concepts of morality and their moral guidelines is examined. It was revealed that egocentric and «creation of world» moral orientations are the most significant in the structure of students’ moral orientations. Based on the results of one-way ANOVA, the authors revealed differences in views about morality, moral policies and orientations in students from deferent departments. It was revealed that the main differences in views exist between Social Pedagogy and Psychology (SPP) students and students from other two departments. Significant differences in views between students from physical-mathematical and natural-geographical were not found. This is probably due to professional orientation of students. SPP students are trained for work with dysfunctional families, children with deviant behavior and other risk groups. Despite a number of optimistic results of the study, the need to continue research in this area is obvious.