History of the development of the religious direction of pedagogy: the influence of spiritual and moral upbringing on the development of schoolchildren's personality

Abstract

At present, pedagogical science emphasizes exploring the factors of the spiritual development of personality. A major gap in the current state of research into the problem of spiritual and moral upbringing is the lack of development of its pedagogical concepts. The study of such a complex and multifaceted issue as spiritual and moral upbringing calls for the consideration of this problem in its historical and pedagogical aspect. The goal of the present study is to analyze key concepts of the spiritual and moral upbringing of children introduced by representatives of religious pedagogy of the second half of the 19th – early 20th century. To fulfill the purpose of the study, articles were selected from Scopus and Web of Science and analyzed, after which the main directions of pedagogical thought of the period were identified using qualitative analysis. The study demonstrates that representatives of religious pedagogy defined the principles of spiritual and moral upbringing as the self-value and sovereignty of personality, integrity, and spiritual freedom. The value orientations of spiritual and moral upbringing in the framework of general education focused on the humanities were concretized by them through striving for a spiritual ideal, a keen sense of truth and falsehood and good and evil, conscience, and dreams of righteousness.

Keywords:

Spiritual and Moral Upbringing, Religion, Orthodox Faith, Christian Ethics, National Traditions.