THE formation OF moral values OF primary school pupils during their extracurricular activities
This paper is dedicated to the problem of the formation of moral values among primary school pupils during their extracurricular activities. It is shown that the formation of moral values takes place at the level of consciousness, emotions and behavior during the integral educational process that includes various forms, methods and directions of educational work. Methods of organizing extracurricular activities include lessons of the program «Chasha Zhizni», educational games, educational, leisure and entertainment activities, labour, sports and recreational activities, tourist and regional studies, problem -value communication, artistic and social creativity, conversations with child’s independent formulation of his own judgment. It is concluded basing on the investigation of psychological and pedagogical literature that acquisition of moral values takes place on condition that there is self-activity of a child. The child involvement into activity happens during a game - a journey that continues during the whole educational process at elementary school. This provides the opportunity to use the internal motivation based on child's direct perception as a positive emotional reinforcement of the required activity forms. The emotional and cognitive experience of a child gained in activity and interpersonal interaction is the basis of the formation of moral values. The formation of moral values happens due to the fact that the child is engaged into some forms of interpersonal communication and interaction in micro-groups. The content of our educational programs in extracurricular activities is determined by the main goal - the formation of core competencies in the younger generation: the needs and readiness for constructive cooperation with individuals and groups on the basis of moral conceptions of reality. During the research, the degree of moral values acquisition has been evaluated basing on the characteristics that allow us to estimate moral values. These characteristics include the quality of the knowledge of the moral code, the ability to assess events in terms of this code, emotional responsiveness, and moral behavior motivation. This research confirms the idea that it is necessary to organize educational activity in a proper way so that moral values could be formed among primary school pupils during their extracurricular activities at the level of notions, emotions and behavior enriching the emotional and cognitive experience during the activity and interpersonal interaction.