The thesis is devoted to the relevant topic on fostering adolescents’ valuable attitude towards labour during extracurricular charity activities.
Based on the analysis of philosophical, sociological, psychological and pedagogical sources, the concept of «valuable attitude towards labour» has been clarified as a category of education theory and methodology and interpreted as a personal quality, which characterizes the place of labour activities in the general system of the individual’s values and is manifested in their intention to conduct effective activities actively, conscientiously and responsibly, to realize social significance of labour as a duty and a spiritual need, respect for working people, creative attitude towards labour.
The concept of «charity activity» is considered as a specific form of an intellectual and volitional action, a necessary component of the individual’s activity, which is selfless, voluntary and aimed at realizing unselfish good for other people. It should be noted that charity activity by its very nature requires the social charity-based orientation of adolescents’ activity and creates a space for manifesting valuable attitude towards people, nature and labour.
The process of fostering adolescents’ valuable attitude towards labour is a purposeful and systematic process of developing such a personal quality of students, which characterizes the place of labour activity in the general system of the individual’s values and is manifested in their intention to conduct extracurricular charity activities honestly, responsibly and actively for the sake of other people.
Based on the generalization of researches by Ukrainian and foreign scholars, it has been determined that while organizing the process of fostering adolescents’ valuable attitude towards labour one should take into account their age and psychophysiological characteristics.
The criteria, indicators and levels of development of adolescents’ valuable attitude towards labour have been identified and characterized. The well-developed valuable attitude towards labour is considered as the result of a purposeful and systematic process of developing such a personal quality of students, which characterizes the place of labour activity in the general system of the individual’s values and is manifested in their intention to conduct extracurricular charity activities honestly, responsibly, actively and voluntarily for the sake of other people.
Such criteria of fostering adolescents’ valuable attitude towards labour as emotional and motivational, cognitive and activity-based and practical ones have been described.
The emotional and motivational criterion includes the following indicators: adolescents’ comprehension of labour as a personal and social value, their emotional readiness for charity activities, genuine compassion, empathy, persistence, skills of charity activities organization, acceptability of its results, the striving to benefit others, a steady interest in charity activities, self-regulation, self-control of emotional states during labour activities.
The cognitive criterion reflects adolescents’ understanding of the labour importance in the process of personal development and society development; the knowledge of the labour nature as a value, their awareness of charity types, the content of charity, certain ways of performing labour activities and realizing charity through labour.
The following are the indicators of activity-based and practical criterion: practical experience in implementing various kinds of charity activities, the ability to overcome difficulties, the striving to achieve positive results, the ability to take independent decisions and be responsible for them and the ability to reveal labour activity. The levels of development of the problem under study are high, medium and low.
Based on the analysis of scientific sources and the results of the ascertaining experiment, pedagogical conditions of development of adolescents’ valuable attitude towards labour during charity activities have been determined. They include enhancing purposeful positive motivation of students towards extracurricular charity activities characterized by social and personal significance; consolidating and expanding students’ knowledge, which is required to realize charity activities; involving adolescents in various systematic extracurricular activities in accordance with their age and interests.
The results of the formative experiment have indicated positive dynamics in the level of development of adolescents’ valuable attitude towards labour and proved the effectiveness of the justified pedagogical conditions.
