Spiritual values of student youth in today's realities: analysis of cultural and artistic projects

Abstract

The article addresses the pressing issues of the transformation of spiritual values of the Ukrainian people in the context of the Russian-Ukrainian war through the lens of student cultural and artistic projects. The author examines contemporary research in the context of defining the spiritual values of Ukrainian youth during such a complex period as wartime. The relevance of addressing this issue is justified. The essence of the concept of "spiritual values" is explained as a complex concept that defines important life principles for individuals, shaped in the realm of spirituality and cultural and artistic creativity. The article offers an interpretation of cultural and artistic projects as complex, multifaceted processes that involve unique forms of interpersonal creativity, directed toward achieving specific goals and limited by space, time, and resources. In the context of this theme, a comparative analysis is conducted on the results of student cultural and artistic pre-war projects and those carried out during online learning in the occupied territories and the midst of hostilities. The obtained results, in the form of created video content, indicate transformational processes with a focus on the sphere of spiritual values, such as love for the homeland, one's hometown, and one's family, national dignity, the significance of one's "self" in wartime, and faith in victory. The conclusion claims that the dire conditions of Russian aggression, in which our student youth found themselves, led to the transformation of the spiritual values of Ukrainian society into internal, high-spirited personal traits of young individuals.