The main functions of the children's theater in the formation of students in value orientation

The relevance of the study is substantiated, due to the fact that the personal formation of the younger generation is carried out today in difficult conditions, when the systemic crisis that permeates modern Russian society and all its institutions of socialization breaks the old ones and forms new values and social relations. It is shown that the younger generation develops value orientations of entertainment and consumer orientation. The results of a theoretical and empirical analysis of the problem of the formation of value orientations of the younger generation through the theater are presented. It is concluded that the active introduction of theatrical activities into educational practice at the level of secondary general education helps to form the correct value orientations in the younger generation.