Problems of the senior pupils’ social development under the contemporary conditions

The article presents a theoretical analysis of the issue of the senior pupils’ social development during education in the modern school. The author studies conditions and mechanisms of the individual attitude development during socially focused activities, development of the schoolchildren’s value system focused on the social values. The research allows organization of the educational process as an object-oriented, methodologically strong system supporting the student’s building of relations with the social environment with consideration for its multifactor influence on the personality.