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"Philosophy of Education"

2010 year, number 4

MOTHERHOOD AND FAMILY AS A VALUE: A SOCIO-PHILOSOPHICAL ANALYSIS

A. Y. Zurueva
Keywords: motherhood, cultural dominant, culture as a standard of human activity
Pages: 314-322

Abstract

The article is dedicated to the problem of devaluation of family and motherhood and the necessity of formation, within the modern innovative education, of the family values among schoolchildren and students. The article gives understanding of motherhood as one of the basic dominants of culture (archetypes), its importance for procreation in the quantitative and qualitative aspects. The issues of patriotism and attitude to the Motherland as an embodiment of the maternal archetype are also considered. In the article there are studied the preconditions and consequences of the destructive social tendencies which influenced the formation of the system of values and world outlook of modern reproductive-capable people. The conclusions are supported by the statistical data of the conducted questioning.