Dyakonov I. Socio-philosophical analysis of the Ukrainian studying youth’s value orientations

The object is conceptual modelling of value orientations of Ukraine’s students. The aim is to trace socio-cultural mechanisms of formation, determinants of optimized development of value-normative orientations of Ukraine’s students. The methods are a complex of dialectical, comparative and systemic approaches, analysis, synthesis, induction, deduction and a historical method. The principles of objectivity, development, comprehensiveness, concreteness and dialectical opposites have been used to substantiate the natural character of forming students’ value orientations. The results are as follows: it has been proven that it is value orientations that are an important factor causing an individual’s motivation of actions and acts; there have been determined determinants of optimizing their formations. The novelty is that for the first time the main determinants of optimizing the development of value orientations of Ukraine’s students have been systematized; it has been determined that the main content of an individual’s value orientations are their world-view moral convictions, principles of behaviour; the logical character of forming value orientations, objectively associated with needs and interests of individuals and separate social groups, has been substantiated; the necessity of creating an integral system of students’ teaching and educating, based on the newest achievements of the philosophical and humanist and pedagogical thought. The application sphere is the educational process in institutions of higher education of different accreditation levels, a purposeful formation of the system of students’ value-normative orientations.