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The article analyzes the specific features of the individual mentality in terms of its influence on the student’s integration into the educational space. The inclusion of the individual into the educational process is determined and regulated by her mental features, thus making relevant the issue of forming and functioning of the individual’s mentality. In this connection the analysis of the structure of the individual’s mentality, its structural levels, components and their interrelation is conducted. This makes possible revealing the peculiarities of its determination. The importance is indicated of the individual’s mentality in the educational process in light of her cognitive and perceptive capabilities, as well as its objectification on the behavioral level. Mentality is viewed as a condition of the individual’s entry into the social environment as well as a factor of its transformation. There are considered the functions of mentality (transitivity, activity), which expose multifacetedness of its social value.