Gender orientation formation features of younger pupils in the educational process

In the modern Russian society modernization of education, accompanied by a rethinking, re-evaluating and adopting new values and orientations. Significant changes have affected and General education, in which the system-activity approach is crucial. The subject of study in this paper is the development of gender orientations of younger students in the educational process. In the process of research used complex methods of research: analysis of scientific literature on the research problem, theoretical analysis and synthesis of interview and participant observation. Scientific novelty consists in the fact that the essence of gender identity and the features of its formation in primary school; the pedagogical potential of management of development of gender orientations of younger students in the educational process. Conducted scientific study of the problem of formation of a gender orientations of younger students in the educational process due to the value of a healthy gender identity to the full development of the person. An empirical study of gender identity younger students showed the existence of problems of formation of a gender orientations in the educational process. Most younger students recorded a rigid gender identity.