LEVEL STRUCTURE OF VALUABLE SELF-DETERMINATION OF THE STUDENT IN THE COURSE OF STUDYING SCHOOL GEOGRAPHY
The present stage of development of Russia is followed by essentially new processes in economic, political, social, spiritual and ideological spheres of public life. In modern sociocultural situation an important place is taken by valuable self-determination of the personality as selection, individual perception of value by the subject, personal preferences of ideals, norms, standards and other values, creation of their hierarchy according to subjective preferences, their inclusion in goals and motives of activity. The article reveales the concept «valuable self determination» as the ascension of the school students to the values of school geography in the course of interaction with the teacher directed to formation of the value-semantic sphere of the individual which results in a conscious goalsetting and comprehension of the importance of studying geography at school, as well as such concepts as «space of valuable self-determination», «space of school geography». The characteristics of school geography are considered: openness and wide geographical informational content; degree of structure and expediency; complex, integrative character; dynamism and procedurality; an orientation on valuable and orientation activity of subjects of teaching and educational process. The approximate level structure of valuable self-determination of the student in the course of studying of school geography depending on age features of school students is given, and the following levels are considered: the socially oriented valuable self-determination which is personal and transforming valuable selfdetermination, predictive valuable self-determination.