Students’ Spiritual and Moral Development in Extracurricular Activities

Abstract

To reveal the scope of extracurricular activities in the student’s spiritual and moral development is the main idea of the article. Extracurricular activities possess a certain set of opportunities in the student’s spiritual and moral development as it is a) the integrated in the contents, technologies provide mutual enrichment of inner ethical standards of the subject; b) issues use of humanitarian technologies, initiation of a reflection of own activity of the subject on the basis of responsibility, conscience, honesty, mutual understanding, mercy; c) promotes inclusion of substantial aspects of spiritual and moral development of the personality at the level of the subjects mastered by the student. Presentation of the structurally functional model of extracurricular activities was designed by the author as a factor of the student’s spiritual and moral development. Also to prove its’ methodological, substantial characteristics and to elicit potentialities of extracurricular activities in the student’s spiritual and moral development is the main goal of the study. The revealed opportunities allow improving process of the spiritual and moral development of the students taking into account the requirements of modern science and practice.