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"Philosophy of Education"

2015 year, number 1

Value orientations of students during the university education

L. N. Zybina
Novosibirsk state pedagogical University, Vilyuiskaya str., 28, Novosibirsk, 630126, Russia
Keywords: values, value orientations, social value-related structure, core of personality, social behavior, value orientations as a psychological phenomenon, dispositional mindsets

Abstract

The article describes the main approaches to the definition of «value orientations», reveals the psychological foundations of value orientations of the individual depending on the formation of social experience in terms of teaching and professional activities. The article substantiates the position that the value orientations have an alternative character (good — evil, beauty — ugliness), and they do not dictate or prescribe the individual any particular type of behavior, but offer him/her a choice which has to be realized by the person him/herself. The article gives a detailed analysis of the structure of value orientations of 85 students aged 20–22 years in the conditions of teaching and professional activities. The assessment of the significance of the differences in the structure of value orientations between two groups of subjects of mathematicians and psychologists of the third year of studying is analyzed and interpreted. Significant differences are revealed in the structure of value orientations: «help and compassion towards other people», «cognition of the new in the world, nature and the human being», «high social status and management of people», «social activity in order to achieve positive changes in society», «altruism». These indicators are superior in the group of psychology students. The index of «love» in the group of students of mathematics is higher than in the group of psychology students. The obtained results show that for third-year students of psychology such value orientations are more important as helping people, cognition of the new, social activity. Altruism is their more distinctive social mindset. The research results may be useful for teachers in the process of organization of teaching and professional work of students in order to create conditions for the formation of value orientations of the specialists of a given sphere.