SOME ASPECTS OF THE CONCEPT OF SPIRITUALITY OF UPBRINGING
Authors: Rastrygina Alla , Kondratene Rimantė 
Published: September 2021

The delineation of some aspects of the concept of spirituality of upbringing, which is productively studied by the international group of scientists, has been stipulated  by  the  necessity  of  informing  the  Ukrainian  scientific  and  educational communities with somewhat diverse position, as to the mentioned phenomenon, that differs from the conventional understanding of such phenomenon in domestic pedagogical theory and practice.For deeper understanding of the essence of the phenomenon of “spirituality of upbringing “we primarily presented such benchmarks of the spiritual realm as general spirituality, that is enshrined in the culture and is characteristic for all members of society, the manifestation of spirituality as an activity of a person in the environment that surrounds him here and now, as well as the personality space of an individual’s spirituality. It is such guidelines that help an individual to realize the sense of the environment and specify the orientation of influence on his spirituality. Considered in such a manner, the spiritual environment can be generally represented as a dynamic phenomenon, existing in the quality of a process, - spirituality of the environment. As to the phenomenon of spirituality of upbringing proper, that is the peculiar upbringing, associated with the sector of education and upbringing environment, there are singled out such phenomena that are inherent to exactly such an environment. In particular, the general spirituality of upbringing, the manifestation of spirituality of upbringing and the space of spirituality of upbringing, that also embrace the context of the spirituality of upbringing.The notion of the phenomenon of spirituality of upbringing is the ratio of freedom of a personality and spirituality of the environment. As to spirituality of the teaching activities, as a further aspect of the concept of spirituality of upbringing, it has been stressed that upbringing, being inseparable from the environment, surrounding an individual, facilitates its integration into peculiar environment – the pedagogic reality, based on spiritual heritage of the nation and reveals possibilities of such experience in the practice of contemporary pedagogical process. The special attention in this article is given to understanding of the specific features of the context characteristics of the investigated phenomenon of spirituality. In the existing, classical system of education and upbringing the notion of spirituality is associated with upbringing of spirituality of the younger generation by means of any subject, or through the system of educational activities.Thus, the upbringing of spirituality serves as a partial task, not as an overall conceptual problem of upbringing. The mentioned diversities form the basis for understanding and realizing the fact that in a democratic society it is expedient to reconstruct the process of humanization of pedagogic reality keeping the focus on spirituality of upbringing. Hence, the shift of paradigm of education and humanization (inspiration) of its environment, is advisable to be represented in the context of the conceptual principles of the phenomenon of spirituality of upbringing.