UDC 376.58
The article deals with the process of forming an attitude to the group as a reference group in pedagogically neglected schoolchildren. These issues are considered by Russian psychologists and educators V. V. Shpalinsky, B. T. Likhachev, I. E. Schwartz and others. The research hypothesis suggests that a comprehensive educational impact that takes into account the mutual influence of the conscious and unconscious in the psyche of adolescents is able to overcome psychological “barriers”, facilitate the establishment of contact interaction with difficult adolescents, awaken the desire for self-improvement and stimulate the process of forming a reference attitude to the class group in pedagogically neglected schoolchildren by solving the following problems: identifying reference groups in difficult adolescents, forming their attitude to the class group as a reference group with the connection to the methodology of moral education of mental self-regulation as one of the types of pedagogical suggestion.
reference group, collective, social orientation, negative attitude, pedagogical neglect, socially significant activity
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