Keyword: «legal culture of orphans»

The urgency of the problem of legal culture formation among pupils of educational institutions for orphans and children left without parental care is due to the need to form their legal consciousness, active life position, the ability to regulate the behavior in all spheres of social life. Pupils of an institution for orphans and children left without parental care, deprived of parental support, unlike their peers who are brought up in full-fledged families, are more exposed to the negative impact of the environment of certain society members, both peers and adults. This may stipulate conditions for their antisocial behavior. Therefore, orphans who are brought up in institutions of this type, require a more careful attitude and full support of teachers in the educational process, including the field of their legal culture formation. Taking into account the social status of such children, it is necessary to work out the technology that contributes to the successful formation of their legal culture. Thus, the purpose of this article is to reveal the essence and content of legal culture, the main components of legal culture, pedagogical conditions contributing to the formation of legal culture in the educational environment of the institution for orphans and children left without parental care. Methods of research are interviews, testing, observation, and pedagogical experiment. The author analyzed and used the research results of Russian and foreign scientists, revealing the essence and content of legal culture, the main components of legal culture, summarized the best experience of many practices in the field of psychology and pedagogy, dealing with the problem of legal culture formation. The article defines the components of legal culture: cognitive, behavioral, emotional-value and motivational-evaluative ones. These components correspond to a certain level and indicator of legal culture formation in the context of the research problem. The results of the experiment presented in this article bring new elements to the existing approaches to the problem of pupils’ legal culture formation, as well as complement the theory and methodology of general education. The practical significance of the study is in generalization and systematization of the best practices, the results may be used to solve the problem of legal culture formation and introduced into the educational process of institutions of various types.