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The article analyzes the current state of affairs in the problem of extremism and terrorism among the young people. Some preventive measures are suggested to counter the youth extremism; a number of research tasks are formulated.

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.

The main theme of the article is the philosophical and methodological analysis of the issue of personality formation in the homes for orphaned children and determination of the problems and methods of social education. The article shows that one of the key problems of the upbringing system within the homes for orphaned children is the upbringing of the socially active individual possessing spiritual, intellectual and physical potential, as is necessary for the fully-fledged member of society. The principal way of resolving these issues and problems is philosophical understanding and practical mastery of the legacy of the Russian philosophical pedagogical thought, whose representatives proposed the methods of social upbringing based on the holistic world outlook adequate to the historical epoch.

The factor of education is investigated. The author assesses its influence on the psychological state of disabled people as a social group. For the first time we investigate the issue of education of the disabled (i.e. issue of obtaining professional or even higher education by them) as the factor which conditions the physical, social-economic and social-cultural status of the disabled, and also the factor fostering their psycho-social rehabilitation and avoidance of suicide. The author has found out that education of disabled persons is a stimulus for them to acquire life-valid goals, form the law consciousness and avoid suicide.

The philosophic-educational conditions fostering spiritual and moral revival of ethical virtues in modern society are discussed in the article. The axiological component of the phenomenon of charity is defined on the basis of the literature review. The problematic issues are identified and the author's vision of the formation of spiritual and moral values of the people is offered. The professional competence of the teacher in the context of didactic goals providing spiritual and moral education is also considered.

L. Feuerbach's anthropological principle proves the necessity of a person like me in the existence and development of every person. Coexistence of the person with another person as a co-being is a new type of integrity in nature and with nature. The co-being's qualities such as consciousness, sympathy, assistance, conscience are formed during various forms of joint actions. Pedagogics knows various forms of co-being such as social assistance, support, cooperation and co-authorship. The co-being-like nature of coexistence provides the pedagogues with a possibility of achieving the integrity of co-being even in the case of its deformation.

The article is devoted to the issues of philosophy of peace education, which is a new trend in the Russian pedagogical science. The article explores historical and philosophical premises of the raise and development of peace education. Strategic aims of peace education are formulated in the article, as well as the mindsets and relations which the peace education seeks to foster and reveal in new generation. Findings and conclusions, made by the author of the article, possess theoretical and practical value, because they can be applied in designing and development of educational and instructive process; apprehension, formulation and creative solution of pedagogical goals; methodological reflection of the pedagogues.

The article shows the importance of studying the subculture of special sub-units by the representatives of officer corps who have to command these collectives of servicemen. The main attention in the work is paid to the basic factors of the professional activity which foster the formation of the special sub-units' subculture. The author substantiates the expedience of understanding by the prospective officers the content of the subculture of the servicemen collectives, its influence on the management efficiency, professional training and reorganization of the special sub-units of the defense and law-enforcement agencies.

The article considers game as a condition of person's socialization. The characteristics of game, its special features and functions and also the active nature of game are described in the article.  The author identifies the specificity of games in socialization, communication, education, justifies the application of innovative games whose organization is based on a number of specific principles. A classification of the game models is proposed. The article considers the method of changing the game participants' status during the game education.