Literary Education and War as a Civil Anti-value

Abstract

The article presents the theoretical classification of values as positive and negative and argues for the view that war is an anti-value against which the fundamental value of human life stands; defends the thesis that literary education has ample opportunities to form moral values against war; problematizes various images of war in children's literature and suggests ways to include them in the reading list of elementary and junior high school students; analyzes high school literature curricula as a starting point for the formation of an aspiration for peaceful resolution of conflicts and of intolerance to armed conflicts. In accordance with the normative construction of intertextual connections between works from the mandatory list and others that are freely selected, the anthology “Poetry Against the Waˮ is brought to the attention of teachers, highlighting its main artistic and merits.