Spiritual and moral personal development in a summer children’s camp: from the experience of educational work of students of the department of pedagogy of St. Tikhon’s Orthodox University for the humanities

Abstract

The article examines the activities of the Pedagogical Faculty of the Orthodox St. Tikhon's University for the Humanities in the field of leisure pedagogy. The fea-tures of this activity in the context of spiritual and moral education of children are analyzed and the following conclusions are drawn: Various types of practices are an important form of the leisure activity of a future Orthodox teacher in the context of spiritual and moral education of children. Practice programs should be carefully prepared and include both traditional and innovative creative pedagogical approaches. The latter include the creation of an innovative program "The soul must work", the implementation of which was carried out in the conditions of the children's sanatorium complex "Pearl of Russia" in Anapa, which is the base of the summer practice of the pedagogical faculty. The main content of the program was a system of knowledge, skills, attitudes and beliefs aimed at the formation of spirituality, morality in the organization of children's free time. The content of the program was implemented through the missionary and pedagogical system of the children's sanatorium complex "Gemchujyna Rossii" created on the basis of the pedagogical faculty, which included the following functions: Pastoral care, Missionary activity, Scientific and pedagogical activity. This system operated on the basis of a set of educational principles, methods and means of secular and Orthodox-oriented pedagogy based on the factor of a holistic approach in the formation of a child's personality, taking into account religious (spiritual and moral), ethical and patriotic values. One of the main conditions for the successful implementation of the functions of the missionary-pedagogical system was the "mutual action" of all the above-mentioned methods, forms and means, with the obligatory observance of the creative informal approach, the principles of naturalness, cooperation, voluntari-ness, variability and complementarity.The missionary and pedagogical system of the children's sanatorium complex "Pearl of Russia" has been functioning effectively for more than ten years, which determines the right direction of the activity of the pedagogical Faculty of the Or-thodox St. Tikhon's University for the Humanities in the field of leisure pedagogy.