Oleksyuk V. The peculiarities of the primary school age pupils' awareness of their own life path.

The thesis investigation is dedicated to theoretically-experimental studying of the peculiarities of the primary school age pupils' awareness of their own life path. The main approaches to the investigation of the given phenomenon in foreign and native psychological science were studied. The more precise psychological definition was given to the subjective life image as the phenomenon of the personality's consciousness and self-consciousness. We showed that its development within primary school age directly depends on the formation of the world outlook position as the ability to express their own viewpoint concerning time-space characteristics of life and personal self, capacity to evaluate the events of external and internal life in the light of moral values, ability to determine life goals (for the nearest future and long-term), form appropriate intentions and regulate their own behavior with their help. We worked out theoretically-technological model of the formation of the world outlook position in primary school age, determined criteria and ascertained its typology. We formed and tested the system of the optimization methodical ways of the primary school age child's world outlook position formation in the family and at school.The main results of the investigation were used in practical work of the school psychologists in Ternopil and in the educational process of Volodymyr Hnatyuk National Pedagogical University.