Abstract:
This article elucidates the issue of axiological education within the socio-humanistic subjects, as nowadays, it is necessary to build an education based on the sense of value and to persistently aim at training students for and through values. As a goal, the values guide our existence, whereas as a means, the values serve as educational tools and contribute to the development of positive subjective human states. The subjects in the Socio-humanistic Sciences curriculum area are provided with their own specific axiological education resources and resources which apply to all school subjects. The dominant values of the socio-humanistic subjects are those of:
- the conceptual basis (epistemology) of the school subject;
- competence systems;
- the systems of objectives (of teleology);
- educational content;
- educational technologies;
- assessment of school success.
Personal values (acquired by the learner) within these subjects are manifested in the form of knowledge, skills, attitudes, acquired/developed competences in the learning process. Based on the educational possibilities presented in the subject curricula, the article formulates two important questions that every teacher should address: the degree to which fundamental, national, democratic values are promoted in education; balancing, in the educational process, the cognitive and psychomotor with the moral, affective and volitional.
