The development of students spiritual culture by means of folk choreography - Статья

Chairman of the Board - Culture and Art Foundation «Perspective» The development of students spiritual culture by means of folk choreography Stryzhakov Artem Olehovych - Candidate of Pedagogical Sciences, e-mail: sao-84@ukr.net Formulation and justification of the relevance of the problem. The problem of the younger generation’s attitude to spiritual and moral values is considered of current interest nowadays. It is illustrated by several factors. Firstly, our time is the era of the fundamental issues rethinking, including the crisis of spiritual and moral development of civilization, not only in general but also the inner world of a human being willing to change the true meaning of life. And this so-called crisis recovery should be conducted in the light of the obvious: the first cause of a human systemic crisis is the predominance of the material over the spiritual, the second reason lies in complex ambiguous processes that occur in the country in all public spheres, spiritual included. The causes of spiritual stagnation lie in the change of ideological orientations, in the emergence of spiritual vacuum (commercial penetration of Western culture, the cult of violence, selfishness, deceit and so on). The lack of spirituality, nefarious morality, rudeness, crime, drug and alcohol addiction and many other vices of our time - they are all destructive for a person, society and nation. One may continue to list the facts, but the main trend is obvious - the changes occur within society. And these changes are not for the better. Moreover, these phenomena penetrating to educational institutions, destroy social and moral foundation of the educational process. The abovementioned facts demonstrate the extraordinary topicality of the problem of students spiritual culture education nowadays. Analysis of recent researches and publications. Many foreign and domestic scholars paid attention to various aspects of cultural study. The tractates of Russian philosophers, educators and psychologists of the previous years (V. Zenkovsky, I. Ilyin, V. Rozanov) and of nowadays (K. Abulkhanova-Slavska, V. Slastonina, B. Hershunsky, N. Nykandrova, V. Shadrykov) are of fundamental importance for solving the problem of spiritual education of a personality. Such prominent educators and scholars as M. Drahomanov, A. Makarenko, Potebnya, V. Sukhomlynsky, K. Ushynsky, a number of other researchers as V. Andrushchenko, Bekh, I. Zazyun, V. Ognev’uk, V. Panchenko are the disciples of domestic academic field who addressed the abovementioned aspect. The concept of spirituality is defined by V. Sukhomlynsky as the main principle of human life, which enables personal and public happiness of a human being. A human being «who hasn’t yet defined own social position becomes personally unhappy and each unhappy person causes social disaster» [11, p. 203]. V. Sukhomlinsky investigates the development of personal spiritual culture within the dialectical interrelation with the general culture. Culture is the sphere and the way of uppermost and decent conduct involving significant spiritual progress of humanity, the understanding of artistic creativity or and scientific competence, fluent literary language and manners of behavior, moral responsibility, artistic taste. To achieve this state the individual goes through a long period of family and school training and education, higher education and these very institutions estimate each one’s essence as a person. Culture pierces through all the spheres of human activity [5, p. 14]. Academician D. Likhachev in his tractates said that culture consolidated all the aspects of a personality. The respect to different aspects of culture, its various forms is a feature of a really well-bred person [8, p. 66]. The term «spirituality» is traditionally understood as a set of universal and human spiritual manifestations. In sociology, culturology and more often in journalism the term «spirituality» is used to define the integrating principles of society, expressed in the form of moral values and traditions which are as a rule concentrated in religious studies and practices, as well as in the images of art. The term «spirituality» we understand the state of human consciousness reflected in thoughts, words and actions. It defines the extent of mastering different kinds of spiritual culture, philosophy, art, religion, the system of special courses of study taught in schools. The term «spiritual» in a broad sense is always associated with the internal condition which is empirically peculiar for a human. In this sense the term «spiritual» reflects not only the emotions that are traditionally considered religious but also those related to perception and cognition, covering all areas of human activity, the overall result of the operation of which is the formation of higher values - ethical, aesthetic, heroic, humanistic and altruistic [5, p. 113]. Spirituality in the socio-philosophical aspect is determined by the values underly