Abstract. This article analyzes the spiritual and moral characteristics of schoolchildren and provides information about the pedagogical criteria for educating young people in the context of a modern axiological approach to pedagogy. Based on the results of our research, the novelty of the pedagogical phenomenon is that the main goal is to strengthen national values, which characterize the specific features of the implementation of the axiological approach, and to focus on the education and upbringing of young people, increasing their worldview. It is to educate young people as a spiritually and morally mature, harmonious generation while preserving the intellectual identity of the younger generation as a strategic resource for society and the whole state.