Khvataeva N.P.
EDUCATION OF DUTY BY V.A. SUKHOMLINSKY: APPEAL TO THE ESSENCE OF THE CONCEPT ^{[№ 3 ' 2023]}
The problem of forming spiritual and moral values, which has become relevant in the last decade, required an appeal to rich experience of domestic pedagogy. In this article, the author explores concept “duty” in the prose of Vasiliy A. Sukhomlinsky. The concept itself was subjected to conceptual analysis, since it has a rather complex and ambiguous semantics. A mandatory moral and ethical component of duty as an inner feeling of a person was established. Contextual analysis was applied to the text of “Education of Duty” in order to clarify the author’s modality. The noun “duty” and its derivatives were analyzed within the context of one predicative structure for each case of use, only free lexical compatibility was taken into account, nouns, adjectives and verbs were included in the context structure. The processing of the results made it possible to establish the comparative frequency of the noun, to highlight the main accompanying meanings expressed by meaningful parts of speech. The author’s lexical valence of the word “duty” in Vasiliy A. Sukhomlinsky does not include a civil or patriotic component. Nuclear positions in the structure of the concept under study are occupied by such meanings and values as human personality, morality, and feeling. The use of non-traditional methods for pedagogical research led to the conclusion that Sukhomlinsky was committed to truly humanitarian values, contrary to the party and class values characteristic of the era.