Keyword: «moral values»

The article reveals the features of the formation of moral values in older preschool children, which is an urgent pedagogical problem. The role of folklore in the formation of moral values in children is noted. The paper also describes an empirical study on the formation of moral values in older preschool children. A set of measures is proposed to work on the formation of moral values in children.

This article examines aspects of moral ideas among younger schoolchildren. Diagnosis of moral ideas is an important point in the work of a teacher in the formation and development of a student’s personality. During primary school age, children begin to form their own moral beliefs and ideas about right and wrong. Understanding and evaluating their moral beliefs helps educators, parents, and child development professionals to identify which values and principles they have learned and which aspects require additional work. Moral education involves connection with society, dependence on society, the need to coordinate one's behavior with interests in society, familiarization with moral and rational norms, the transformation of moral knowledge into moral beliefs and the creation of a system of such beliefs, the formation of stable moral feelings and moral qualities.