Development of Volitional Qualities of Adolescent in the Pedagogy of Consciousness

Abstract

The research is relevant due to the interest of scientific pedagogical community to the
problems of spiritual and moral education in modern Russian society, the identification
of means of its development. In this regard, this paper aims at revealing the theoretical
foundations and practical mechanisms of development of volitional qualities of pupils
in the context of pedagogy of consciousness. The leading approaches to the research
of this problem are the ontological-axiological and esoteric-activity-oriented
approaches which allow considering the problem of volition in the pedagogy of
consciousness. The leading empirical method is the experiment. The paper presents
the essence and content of the concept of “volition” and “volitional qualities” in the
psychological and pedagogical literature and pedagogy of consciousness, the structure
of development of volition, the theoretical basis for the development of volitional
qualities in the pedagogy of consciousness and the methods of developing volitional
qualities identified during the empirical study. The materials of the paper are of
practical value for researchers of problems of education, students, and pedagogues of
schools and institutions of leisure.