Журнал «Психология образования в поликультурном пространстве»

PEDAGOGICAL PROBLEM OF FUTURE PILOTS’ VALUE AND MORAL SPHERE FORMATION AT A HIGHER MILITARY SCHOOL

Author: Volynkina Natalia V., Duhanin Mikhail M.

The article deals with the problem of future pilots’ value and moral sphere formation in the educational process of a higher military school, which reflects in the contradictions of conceptual, organizational and methodical levels. This phenomenon is considered as a multi-component system of integrative dialectically interdependent qualities that ensure the internalization of the value-moral postulates of the state into internal attitudes and personal beliefs, self-building of the individual based on the traditions of Russian officers and historical knowledge about the exploits of Russian pilots in the Great Patriotic War and today’s local wars, the presence of internal value-moral “scales” that determine the choice of hero’s act, their readiness for self-sacrifice, awareness of themselves as “I am an officer of Russia”. The article examines the value education and the correspondence of the views of researchers regarding the instillation of values in the aspect of a military educational institution. Attention is focused on the partial possibility of adapting some concepts of value education and this approach is argued in the formation of future career officers. The aspects of moral education are determined and the components of the officer’s moral qualities, which are of a separate nature, are given. The attention is focused on pedagogical problems that are associated with the formation of the personality of the future officer and the adaptation of moral aspects on specific historical examples. The argumentation of the importance of the personality of the teacher, who must have all the characteristics and qualities of an officer, is given. The article considers the discrepancy between the professional training of career officers and the achievement of the desired value and moral qualities in the process of educational work in the aspect of the distribution of profile training over time. The necessity and expediency of restoring the principle of continuity when entering military universities after military educational organizations is argued based on value and moral considerations. As an alternative, the formation of an educational system is proposed, which at the initial stage could create conditions for bringing the value and moral qualities of cadets to the basic level. The importance of developing and implementing a unified educational system, which contains general and applied components, is determined. On the example of Krasnodar Higher Military School of pilots named after Hero of the Soviet Union A.K. Serov the expediency of using the accumulated experience for the implementation of such a unified educational system and the formation of future career officers who differ not only in basic values and moral qualities, but also moral qualities in accordance with the branch of the armed forces.

Key words:
value and moral sphere; value education; moral education; future pilot; pedagogical problem; unified educational system