Cultivating a Sense of Belonging: Axiological and Practical Dimensions of Educational Work with Students

This article examines the value-based intentions that shape the process of fostering a sense of belonging to the joys and trials of one's nation among modern students. The relevance of this study is linked to the need for scientific and methodological support and the implementation of university educational programs in the face of the axiological ambiguity of individual target benchmarks. The study draws on the works of renowned philosophical and pedagogical scholars who explore the concept of "belonging" and the axiological foundations of the spiritual education of youth. Applied approaches were developed drawing on the pedagogical potential of classical Russian literature and the educational potential of urban literary excursions. The interdisciplinary nature of the study ensured its appeal to the scientific achievements of Russian literary criticism and scholarly argumentation from other fields of the humanities. The key content and sequence of fostering a sense of belonging are defined (using the example of an urban literary excursion as a form of extracurricular student activity), and general characteristics of the educational methods and techniques used are presented. This article may be of interest to researchers studying educational issues, as well as to organizers of educational work and university teachers.