The Path to the Ideal: Factors in the Formation of the Moral Ideal of a Modern Teenager

The article considers one of the urgent problems of education of the younger generation, connected with the study of the factors of formation of moral ideal of teenagers at the present stage of development of the society, which is characterized by active entry of Internet communications into the life of the person, uncontrolled consumption of Internet content and, as a consequence, transformation of value orientations and emergence of new professional preferences of the younger generation. The emphasis is made on necessity of organization of pedagogical support of existential choice of the teenager, realization of which will help the maturing personality to consciously choose life values and goals, to define its moral ideal, based on internalized moral values. The study was carried out with the support of the Russian Science Foundation grant No.25-28-20461 on the topic “The moral ideal of a modern child and pedagogical support for its formation”, https://rscf.ru/project/25-28-20461/.