The article gives the theoretic grounds and describes the structural and functional model of value attitude to heroic traditions. It marks the functions that show the connection of value attitude to heroic traditions and a pupil’s personality. The components of the personal phenomenon are found out: cognitive and assessing, emotional and meaningful, activity.

The article deals with the results of the diagnostics of school experience in development of cultural self-determination of senior school pupils. The potential of social disciplines and humanities for the development of this personal phenomenon, comprehension of the tasks of this process by teachers are described in the article. Value guidelines of the modern senior school pupils are found out. The levels of development of cultural self-determination of senior school pupils are determined.

There is substantiated the specific character of classical research, revealed the essential characteristics and marked out the criteria foundations and signs of senior school pupils’ research culture.

There is represented the structural and functional model of the value attitude to citizen’s political rights. There are revealed the cognitive and evaluative, motivational and sense, activity and practical components, determined the criteria and levels of development of the personal phenomenon.

There are sorted out the stages of constructing the model of formation senior pupils’ attitude to labour as a moral value in the context of integral and axiological approaches. There is substantiated the psychological basis of modeling the process, as well as found out the system of formation means of the personal phenomenon.

Представлены результаты и перспективы исследований в рамках научной школы, базирующейся на ценностно-коммуникативном подходе в гуманитарном образовании; обосновываются методологические позиции целеполагания, принципы отбора содержания гуманитарного образования, факторы организации педагогического взаимодействия в гуманитарной образовательной среде. Раскрывается необходимость аксиологизации содержания современного образования.