Bryksina E.S.
PEDAGOGICAL CAPABILITIES OF VOLUNTEER ACTIVITIES IN THE FORMATION OF A UNIVERSITY STUDENT MORAL CULTURE ^{[№ 2 ' 2025]}
In the modern conditions of the complication of relations between states, the aggravation of the geopolitical struggle, the imposition of a destructive ideology on the Russian people with the propaganda of aggression, cruelty, egoism, permissiveness, immorality, the need to increase the educational potential of higher education is obvious. The tendency to strengthen the value-semantic orientation of education is becoming volunteer activity with the manifestation of the best spiritual and moral qualities of the individual (virtues), which form the basis of the moral culture of university students. In the course of my theoretical research, three types of pedagogical possibilities of volunteer activity in the formation of the moral culture of university students were identified: deontological (manifested in the formation of stable moral guidelines in the student, awareness of duty to society and personal responsibility for decisions made in the process of voluntary practices of civic participation); informational (ensure the expansion of student awareness in legal, psychological, cultural and ethical issues (knowledge of morality, ethics, customs) in the process of using various information and educational resources (from digital educational platforms to media content on social security and moral education) in real helping situations); transformative (revealed through the involvement of the student in socially significant activities, in which there is a rethinking of their own value system, assimilation of the norms of humanistic interaction and acquisition of experience in committing a moral act). Actualization of pedagogical opportunities in the corresponding maxims: humane centrality, altruistic motive, volunteer initiative, communicative tolerance, socio-cultural integration, personal growth sets the benchmark for volunteer activities to strengthen the foundations of morality of student youth. The implementation of pedagogical opportunities of volunteer activities is highlighted by the strategies: orientation, activation, support. Each of them ensures the formation of a specific component of moral culture. The pedagogical opportunities of volunteer activities contribute to the optimal process of forming the moral culture of university students.