Keyword: «excursions for the disabled»

The issue of dysfunctional social wellbeing, loneliness and lack of motivation to participate in various forms of social activity, which often characterize the personal identification of students with severe disabilities, is quite actively studied within the framework of psychological, pedagogical and other areas of humanitarian knowledge. At the same time, issues related to the educational potential of extracurricular activities that contribute to developing the students' worldview with moral and semantic categories that help focus on the values and benefits of full integration in society, have been considered fragmentarily to date. The aim of the study is to substantiate and develop a historical and literary excursion taking into account the health status and educational needs of wheelchair-bound students, including the definition of value-meaning dominants, differentiated selection of teaching techniques and methods as well as excursion demonstration. The study is conducted in line with an integrated, systemic, conceptual and environmental approaches. The following provisions were defined as initial ones: on the situational-event mechanism in the context of the paradigm of personality-developing education and on a tourist (excursion) trip as an educational event. The methodology developed in the course of the study includes seven successive stages of designing an excursion as an educational event: defining the key moral idea; substantiating and developing the topic of the excursion display; selecting sources of historical and artistic facts; structuring of the excursion materials in accordance with the objectives of planning and conducting the excursion; developing excursion content taking into account the educational purpose, working out a scenario for the excursion show; defining pedagogical conditions for the implementation of activities by stages of implementation; designing a route taking into account the movement aspects and perception of information by excursionists. The excursion "Life, miracles and exploits of St. Sergius of Radonezh" (in the Holy Trinity Lavra of St. Sergius, Sergiev Posad) for students with limited mobility, developed in accordance with the original methodology, has an educational goal – the development of self-reflection skills in the context of learning about the Orthodox way of life. It has been tested empirically and can be offered for implementation in the educational system of universities for groups of students with disabilities (diseases of the musculoskeletal system) and those without health problems or mixed groups. The content and methods of conducting the excursion allow focusing the attention of students on such key Orthodox values as: "humility and love", the desire for moral perfection and spiritual transformation, arranging life with goodness and love. The sequence of stages for developing an excursion as an educational event proposed in the study can be applied when designing other events of extracurricular activities for students.